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Jake Bleiberg And Jamie Stengle
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October 24, 2022 • 17 minutes ago • 3 minutes read • 
This June 18, 2022 photo provided by the Dallas County Jail shows Nestor Hernandez arrested in the fatal shooting of two Methodist Dallas Medical Center employees in Dallas on Saturday, October 22, 2022. Photo from Dallas County Jail /via AP
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DALLAS — A man fatally shot two hospital workers in Dallas over the weekend and opened fire after accusing his girlfriend, who had just given birth, of infidelity, authorities said.
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Jacqueline Pokuaa, a 45-year-old social worker, and Katie Annette Flowers, a 63-year-old nurse, were killed in Saturday’s shooting at Methodist Dallas Medical Center, according to police and hospital officials.
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Authorities said Nestor Hernandez, 30, opened fire around 11 a.m. Saturday while he was in hospital due to the birth of a child by his girlfriend. Hernandez, who was on parole from prison and received permission to be in the hospital with an ankle monitor, was shot and wounded by a police officer, authorities said.
Friends remember Dallas Methodist social worker Jacqueline Pokuaa.
She came to this country from Ghana over 20 years ago with 4 friends. “When there’s chaos, she’s very calm and that’s her personality. And she died for that, she died helping.” 🤍🤍@wfaa pic.twitter.com/7SzapObfb9
— Malini Basu (@MaliniBasu_) October 24, 2022
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“In my opinion, this is a failure of our criminal justice system,” Dallas Police Chief Eddie Garcia said at a news conference Monday. “A violent person like this should not have been on the ankle monitor and remained in custody.”
Hernandez was charged with capital murder, but it wasn’t clear Monday if he has an attorney who could speak for him. He was not listed among those being held at the Dallas County Jail, and authorities said he was treated at Methodist after the shooting and then transferred to another medical school for further treatment.
Hernandez arrived at the hospital around 10:20 a.m. to visit the woman at the delivery and began hitting her repeatedly in the head with a pistol, Garcia said. According to a warrant affidavit obtained by WFAA-TV, Hernandez was in the hospital when the baby was born and began hitting his girlfriend with a gun after accusing her of infidelity.
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BREAKING: Nestor Hernandez, the man charged this weekend in the fatal murder of two Methodist Hospital staff, has been arrested twice this year while on parole, WFAA sources confirm. https://t.co/IzxK3F6V08
— WFAA (@wfaa) October 24, 2022
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Hernandez then began making “ominous” calls and texting his family, telling his girlfriend they were both dying and saying “whoever comes into this room is going to die with us,” according to the report the Dallas TV station’s affidavit. He shot Pokuaa as she came into the room to deal with the woman and then shot Flowers after she looked into the room when she heard gunfire, Garcia said.
Hospital Police Sgt. Robert Rangel saw Flowers being shot, called backup and took cover outside the room where Hernandez was reloading his gun, the chief said. When Hernandez showed up, Rangel shot him in the leg and after a standoff, police took him into custody, Garcia said.
Garcia said the woman who met Hernandez was being treated for her injuries and a newborn child who was in the room was not injured. Police identified the two women killed as nurses and clerks, but did not say who did what work.
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Hernandez was paroled from prison last October after being convicted of aggravated robbery, according to Texas Department of Justice spokeswoman Amanda Hernandez. She said he was given permission to be in the hospital with his “partner” during her delivery.
Authorities have not released any information on how Hernandez came to own a gun while he was on parole for a felony conviction. Methodist Medical System Police Chief Glen Fowler said Monday the hospital had not received any notification of his criminal record or that he was being tracked with an ankle monitor.
“That’s something we don’t typically ask for a parent,” Fowler said. “This is an extremely horrific situation that is not within the norm. I wish we had known, but this is not information that was previously provided to us.”
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Garcia said Hernandez was sentenced to eight years for aggravated robbery, of which he served six years before being paroled last year. He was arrested for a parole violation in March 2022 and turned over to his parole officer in April. In June, Garcia said, Hernandez was arrested by police in a Dallas suburb for another parole violation, taken to a county jail and then placed in the custody of Texas jails, which released him this September with the ankle monitor he used during who carried detention released shooting.
Dallas County records show that since 2011, Nestor Hernandez has been arrested repeatedly for charges including aggravated robbery, burglary and unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon.
The Dallas Police Department is leading the investigation into the shooting, which is also being reviewed by the Office of Inspector General of the Texas prison system.
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