According to police reports in Lancaster, Texas, where Mr Routh lives, the veteran was admitted to hospital for psychiatric treatment on 2 September after threatening to kill his family and himself.

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D-Day veteran Fred Harris died at Basildon Hospital in March at the age of 90.

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"The lesson I've learned from 40 years of cardiology is that when there's this much smoke, there's often some fire, " said Paul Thompson, a sports-medicine specialist and veteran marathoner who is chief of cardiology at Hartford Hospital in Connecticut.

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Aurora police Officer Justin Grizzle, a 13-year veteran, wiped away tears Monday while describing his efforts to rush badly wounded victims to a hospital in his police cruiser, including shooting victim Ashley Moser and her husband, who wanted Grizzle to turn around and head back to the theater.

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This involved allegations that the veteran broadcaster had sexually assaulted two teenage girls at Duncroft Approved School and a girl at Stoke Mandeville Hospital.

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Dimenna, a 24-year veteran of the force and about to be a grandmother herself, stayed by the boy's side in the hospital, watching Disney videos and trying to comfort him.

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