{"id":13528,"date":"2003-05-27T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2003-05-28T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=13528"},"modified":"2023-01-25T09:46:33","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T17:46:33","slug":"newspolice-still-investigating-sniper-attacks-on-mds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=13528","title":{"rendered":"(News)Police still investigating sniper attacks on MDs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Barbara Sibbald<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"171\" height=\"230\" src=\"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/cmaj.jpg\" alt=\"Canadian Medical Association Journal, CMAJ\" class=\"wp-image-11269\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Canadian Medical Association Journal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Extract<\/strong><br>James Kopp has been found guilty of murdering New York state obstetrician Dr. Barnett Slepian, but police are still trying to close other cases involving Canadian physicians who were shot. Kopp remains a suspect in the non- fatal shootings of physicians who provided abortions in Winnipeg, Vancouver and Ancaster, Ont. He has been charged in the last case \u2014 Dr. Hugh Short was shot in the right arm as he sat in his home Nov. 10, 1995 (CMAJ 1998;159[9]:1153-5) \u2014 but there is in- sufficient evidence linking him to the Winnipeg or Vancouver cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Sibbald B. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC155975\/pdf\/20030527s00040p1456.pdf\">Police still investigating sniper attacks on MDs. <\/a>Can Med Assoc J. 2003 May 27;168(11):1456. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barbara Sibbald ExtractJames Kopp has been found guilty of murdering New York state obstetrician Dr. Barnett Slepian, but police are still trying to close other cases involving Canadian physicians who were shot. Kopp remains a suspect in the non- fatal shootings of physicians who provided abortions in Winnipeg, Vancouver and Ancaster, Ont. 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