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Anthony Garcia

Active

2008–2013

Region

Omaha, Nebraska, USA

States

IL, NE

Kind

Serial

Status

Convicted

Victims

4

Anthony Garcia, a physician who had been dismissed from Creighton University's pathology residency in 2001, killed four people in Omaha in revenge against faculty members he blamed. In March 2008 he killed 11-year-old Thomas Hunter, the son of Creighton pathologist Dr. William Hunter, and the family's housekeeper, Shirlee Sherman, in the Hunters' home in the Dundee neighborhood. On Mother's Day 2013 he killed Dr. Roger Brumback, another Creighton pathologist, and his wife Mary in their west Omaha home; the same day he tried to break into the home of a former professor. Arrested in Illinois that July, he was convicted in 2016 and sentenced to death in 2018.

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Victims

We remember the people whose lives were taken.

• Thomas Hunter, 11 · March 13, 2008

  The son of Creighton pathologist Dr. William Hunter.

• Shirlee Sherman, 57 · March 13, 2008

  The Hunter family's housekeeper.

• Dr. Roger Brumback · May 12, 2013

  A Creighton pathologist; he and Dr. Hunter had dismissed Garcia from the residency.

• Mary Brumback · May 12, 2013

  Roger Brumback's wife.

Timeline of locations

1. March 13, 2008
   Hunter home, Dundee neighborhood (Crime scene, approximate area)

   Thomas Hunter and Shirlee Sherman were killed in the Hunter family home.

2. May 12, 2013
   Brumback home, west Omaha (Crime scene, approximate area)

   Roger and Mary Brumback were killed in their home on Mother's Day 2013, about 6 miles from the Hunter home.

3. July 15, 2013
   Arrest in Union County, Illinois (Arrest, approximate area)

   Garcia was stopped on a highway in Union County, Illinois, and arrested; a handgun was found in his car. He was extradited to Nebraska and charged with four counts of first-degree murder.

4. October 3, 2016
   Douglas County Courthouse, Omaha (Court / trial)

   After 15 days of testimony, a jury convicted Garcia on all counts on October 26, 2016. A three-judge panel sentenced him to death in September 2018.

5. September 2018
   Tecumseh State Correctional Institution (Prison)

   Garcia is held on Nebraska's death row at Tecumseh.

Sources

• Anthony Garcia (serial killer) (Wikipedia)
• 'If we were home, we wouldn't be alive': Doctors recall near encounter with killer resident (CBS News)
• Attorneys for Nebraska death row inmate want new trial (WOWT, 2023)

Each location also lists its own sources in the data file.