NATION : Nurse Guilty of Killing 4 Patients
A nurse was convicted today of killing four patients by injecting them with a powerful drug in a scheme to revive them and look like a hero.
A jury deliberated eight days before finding 27-year-old Richard Angelo guilty of murder in two deaths, manslaughter in one and criminally negligent homicide in the fourth. All four deaths occurred in 1987 at a Long Island hospital.
Angelo also was convicted of assault in connection with the deaths and on three counts of assault for giving injections to a patient who survived. He was acquitted of assault in connection with two other patients whose deaths could not conclusively be linked to injections.
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