Harris Teel and nurse Gail Sandidge who died trying to save patients
Kyron Templeton
Charges upgraded against Longview man accused in hospital stabbings
Charges against a Longview man in connection to a fatal hospital stabbing spree were upgraded to capital murder Friday, one day before his 23rd birthday.
Kyron Templeton is accused of stabbing five people Nov. 26 in a rampage at a Good Shepherd Medical Center facility that left two people dead. Nurse Gail Sandidge, 57, and 82-year-old Harris Teel — who died days later on Dec. 5 — were killed in the attack.
Templeton was originally charged with murder and four counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon but will face the capital murder and three aggravated assault charges.
Capital murder is a charge in which a jury can issue the death penalty.
It was not immediately clear when Templeton was arraigned. Alfonso Charles, judge of the 124th District Court, sealed information relating to the case.
“There is a gag order in that case,” Gregg County District Clerk Barbara Duncan said late Friday afternoon.
Duncan said she told her employees to seal the case after receiving word from Charles.
Calls placed to Charles on Friday afternoon were not immediately returned, and District Attorney Carl Dorrough did not immediately respond to a request for information.
Templeton is being held in the county jail on bonds totaling $2.5 million.
Templeton was at the hospital because his mother was scheduled to have a procedure the morning of the stabbing, according to Good Shepherd Medical Center CEO Steve Altmiller.
Court records show a search warrant to obtain Templeton’s DNA was filed the same day in the Gregg County District Clerk’s Office.
According to the search warrant, Templeton repeatedly told police that “they” were trying to kill his mother.
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