ORLANDO, Fla. -- The person who gunned down a Florida transplant surgeon Thursday night was a patient who then killed himself.
The patient, 53-year-old Nelson Flecha of Orange City, Fla., shot Dr. Dmitriy A. Nikitin in a parking garage at Florida Hospital's main campus in Orlando, police told The Orlando Sentinel Friday morning.
Police said video surveillance taken from the garage supports the theory that Flecha targeted Nikitin, 41, though it wasn't clear why.