OMAHA, Neb. -- When Anthony J. Garcia exhibited what was viewed as erratic and insubordinate behavior, Creighton University officials booted him out of his pathology residency in 2001. Omaha police believe a festering grudge born in that decade-old firing ultimately led to four homicides tied to the two people most responsible for the termination: the then-chair of the pathology department and the head of the department's residency program. And had Dr. Garcia not been arrested on a highway in rural Illinois Monday, Omaha police Chief Todd Schmaderer believes still more could have died. "We did not feel this individual would stop unless an arrest was made," the chief said in an afternoon...
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