Dr. Katherine Lindley Dodson, a 43-year-old pediatrician and owner of Children’s Medical Group in Austin, was shot and killed on January 26, 2021, during a hostage incident at her medical office. A man who had come to the building with a gun held several people hostage; some were released but Dr. Dodson was kept inside and later shot. The assailant was identified as Dr. Bharat Narumanchi, a 43-year-old pediatrician who had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer and had visited the office a week earlier to apply for a volunteer position. Police say negotiations took place for hours before the shooting.

Dr. Dodson was a native of Baton Rouge with a magna cum laude degree in chemistry from Washington and Lee University and a medical degree from Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans. She completed pediatric residency at Vanderbilt, served as an instructor at Harvard Medical School, and worked at Boston Children’s Hospital before moving to Austin in 2007. She is survived by her husband, Drew, and three children, Shaw, Tucker, and Loretta. Does anyone have information about Dr. Dodson’s work at the clinic or about the events that day?