A crazed man was arrested in Texas earlier this month for attempting to strangle two newborn babies, and assaulting hospital staff and law enforcement officers at Odessa Regional Medical Center.
Marcus Dewayne McCowan, 18, was found choking two newborn babies in the hospital’s Odessa Newborn Intensive Care Unit. He assaulted a nurse who tried to stop him, resisted arrest by police responding to the scene, and tried to grab one of the police officer’s guns.
McCowan was arrested and charged with two counts of attempted murder in the first degree, assault, and possession of a controlled substance.
According to a press release by the Odessa Police Department, the police were called to the hospital on October 3, at around 6:30 in the evening, because of a report of a man allegedly strangling babies in the nursery.
When police arrived at the hospital and tried to subdue the man, he started to pull away and fight the officers, refusing to be handcuffed. After being placed in custody, police started going through his belongings and found a THC vape pen. When one of the officers continued his search, McCowan unsuccessfully tried to grab the cop’s gun from its belt.
He attempted to take the gun again in the elevator, but was subdued.
McCowan was in the hospital to support his pregnant girlfriend, who was in active labor and about to give birth. When he was in the delivery room, he approached one of the nurses attending to his girlfriend, grabbed her left arm with a lot of pressure, and muttered something unintelligible. This event made her very uncomfortable, and the nurse ordered him to leave the room.
After a few unsuccessful attempts to get back into the delivery room, he ran down the hospital halls and approached a newborn mother holding her baby, but she managed to get out of his way.
McCowan then charged at three nurses who were standing near the locked nursery, and shoved one of them to the ground. He approached a newborn baby in a carrier near its mother.
He snatched the baby from its carrier and took off towards the lactation room, where a nurse who was chasing him down said that she saw him strangle the baby until its face turned blue. The nurse rescued the baby, but then the man ran towards the nursery, which was now unlocked. He grabbed another baby from its crib and started to choke and shake the newborn until her lips turned blue and her face was red.
According to the police, McCowan picked up the baby by her neck and began strangling and shaking her while shouting, “Die!” The nurse pleaded with the deranged McCowan to let the child go.
Security arrived just in time to separate McCowan from the baby.
McCowan is now in the custody of the Odessa Police and is facing charges of attempted capital murder.
Looks like the only support McCowan will be giving his girlfriend is child support, and probably not even that.
