A beloved surgeon who was targeted and fatally shot by gunman at a Boston hospital on Tuesday was expecting his fourth child with his wife, who is seven months pregnant, it has emerged. Cardiovascular surgeon Dr. Michael Davidson, 44, from Wellesley, Massachusetts, was shot by Stephen Pasceri, 55, on Tuesday morning and passed away late that evening. Pasceri's relatives suggested that he was angry over the death of his mother, whom Dr Davidson had treated. Davidson leaves behind his wife, who is a plastic surgeon, and their three other children, two girls aged seven and nine and a two-year-old son, his father-in-law told the Boston Herald.
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Dr. Michael Davidson was shot twice by Stephen Pasceri at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston on Tuesday and later died from his injuries
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Pasceri's sister said he blamed the doctor for his mother's recent death
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Married Pasceri took his own life after shooting Davidson at heart center
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Davidson leaves behind three children, aged two, seven and nine, and his wife, who is seven months pregnant
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