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Shooting victim's mom sues doctor
MOULTRIE — The mother of a Moultrie boy who died of complications after being shot twice in the leg is now suing his emergency room doctor for wrongful death.
Carol D. Edwards, mother of Antonio B.. Davis, filed suit this week against Emmanuel Cortez Tanglao, M.D., formerly an emergency room doctor at Colquitt Regional Medical Center. Tanglao since has moved to Tallahassee, said a complaint prepared by Valdosta attorney Wayne Ellerbee.
On Sept. 23, Davis was shot twice below his left knee during a Packer football victory party at 710 Third Ave. S.W. and transported to the hospital emergency room where he was treated and discharged.
On Sept. 26, he returned to the ER complaining of anxiety and hyperventilating, which are “classic signs and symptoms,” the complaint said, of deep vein thrombosis and/or life threatening pulmonary embolism.
Tanglao allegedly failed to conduct tests to rule out these threats. Instead, he allegedly discharged Davis with a diagnosis of probable panic attack. Davis received medication and a prescription to treat asthma, the complaint said.
On Sept. 28, Davis was readmitted into the ER and pronounced dead.
An autopsy on file at Colquitt County Superior Court revealed that the cause of death was a massive bilateral pulmonary thromboemboli “completely filling the bilateral pulmonary arteries.” Assistant Medical Examiner Dr. Anthony Clark reported that the gunshot wounds precipitated Davis’s death and ruled it a homicide.
Criminal charges in this case have yet to go before a grand jury. Two other Moultrie youth currently face charges of felony murder. Cedric Devitures Daniels, 18, 1112 Joe Louis Ave., was granted a $90,000 bond. Tobias Demere Thomas, 18, 325 10th St. S.E., was granted bond of $75,000. That bond was revoked in April after fresh charges of terroristic threats, simple battery and obstruction, court records said.
Police suspect Daniels as the shooter. Thomas, although also shot during the affray, allegedly supplied Daniels with the gun.
The next grand jury convenes in June, but Assistant District Attorney Brian McDaniel said Friday the case likely won’t be presented at that time.
