The husband of a young nurse and mother who was shot and killed outside Tuscaloosa’s DCH Regional Medical Center has sued the hospital, its third-party security firm, and the alleged shooter over her death. As previously reported, 27-year-old Ada Chapman Doss was killed on the evening of May 12th as she left her shift working at DCH. Investigators say 41-year-old Matthew Taylor, who was reportedly in the throes of an extreme mental health crisis, attacked Doss while attempting to rob her in the hospital parking lot.
Details of the Lawsuit
Taylor was taken into custody almost immediately and charged with capital murder – he is being held without bond, and questions are being raised about his mental fitness to stand trial. Now, after a month of grieving, Ada Doss’s widower, Andrew Doss, is suing the DCH Health Care Authority, her accused killer Matthew Taylor, and Universal Protection Service, LLC. – the security firm hired to protect the patients and staff at the hospital.
In the lawsuit, Andrew Doss revealed that he was on the phone with Ada when she was approached by Taylor – they were discussing what they’d do that night with their daughters, one infant and one toddler. The complaint reads that Taylor was transported to the DCH Emergency Room entrance by an unidentified individual complaining of a manic episode, but Allied security personnel and DCH security personnel failed to assess the security threat and act to locate Taylor.
The lawsuit says Taylor was allowed to remain in the area, shirtless, shoeless, and eventually armed. As Ada Doss was walking to her vehicle located in the DCH South parking lot, and speaking to her husband by phone, her voice filled with fear and panic as Taylor approached her armed with a gun. Tragically, Andrew Doss was forced to endure hearing his wife’s last words of, ‘please don’t, I have babies,’ seconds before Taylor shot and killed Ada Doss in the south parking lot of the DCH campus.
The three-count lawsuit, filed on Doss’s behalf by local attorney Paul Patterson, accused DCH, Taylor, and the security firm of negligence and wantonness leading to Ada’s wrongful death. It comes days after the mother of the alleged shooter also sued the hospital, saying in her complaint that Taylor was refused emergency assessment and care after he was dropped off at DCH in the middle of a mental health crisis. A hospital spokesperson has denied those claims.
Original reporting: The Tuscaloosa Thread — read the source article.
