DID A SURGEON ACCIDENTALLY SHOOT A SALES REP? (Orthopedics This Week)
A very tragic and strange story crossed our desks last week.
In Cayce, South Carolina a 46-year old orthopedic surgeon has been accused of fatally shooting William Holland, a sales rep employed by CrossLink Orthopaedics, one of Stryker’s largest distributors.
According to the police initially, this was a tragic, horrible gun accident.
In their first recounting of events, the police said that the surgeon, Adam Lazzarini, M.D., had been traveling with Holland in Georgia on business and while having dinner and under the influence of alcohol, he pointed a handgun at Holland’s chest. The gun discharged.
This happened in October 2017, almost 9 months ago.
Then events seemed to spiral out of control.
In early May 2018, Dr. Lazzarini’s wife, Vanessa Biery, was found dead inside their home.
While investigating Biery’s death, authorities say they uncovered evidence that Lazzarini had lied about the Holland case and that the two deaths were related. The coroner's office has not given a cause of Biery's death.
Accounts which have been written in the Cayce local paper, The State, say that Dr. Lazzarini’s wife, Vanessa Biery,...
