Dr. Suresh Nagaraj Gadasalli, a 53-year-old cardiologist who had practiced in Odessa since 1994 and directed The Healthy Heart Center, was shot and killed at his clinic on June 11, 2015. Police responded to reports of shots fired at 500 East 4th Street and found Dr. Gadasalli and a 60-year-old man, patient and business partner Ayyasamy Thangam, with gunshot wounds inside the clinic. Witnesses reported that Thangam shot Dr.

Gadasalli multiple times before closing the door to the room; both men were later taken to Tarrant County for autopsy. Dr. Gadasalli had been under federal investigation for alleged currency structuring, with a prior raid at the clinic in June 2012 and an arrest in May 2013; he was scheduled for federal trial on July 6, 2015, in Midland. The episode shocked the Odessa community and halted the case’s forthcoming trial.

Has anyone with ties to the clinic or the local medical community seen or heard details that could shed light on what happened that day?