Frazier released from hospital
By Ari Bloomekatz
Oct. 12, 2003 9:00 p.m.
Attempted murder suspect Willie Davis Frazier was discharged
from the UCLA Medical Center on Saturday afternoon after medical
staff cleared him for release.
Frazier had been under guarded patrol at the hospital for a
gunshot wound sustained after allegedly attacking UCPD officer
Terrence Duren in Kerckhoff Hall on Oct. 5.
“One of his lungs collapsed; (he) had a chest tube until
that healed,” said Carol Gamboa, one of the nurses looking
after Frazier. “They took the bullet out, did a little
repair.”
Gamboa said the medical staff believed it was no longer
necessary for Frazier to stay at the hospital and that any other
medical issues could be handled somewhere else.
“(He) didn’t have any infections; everything was
clear,” Gamboa said.
Frazier had been in the hospital for six days.
He was transferred from the hospital to the Twin Towers
Correctional Facility and is being held under $500,000 bail.
Early Sunday morning, Frazier was checked into the
facility’s medical ward.
Gamboa described Frazier as “very anxious and
agitated,” before his release Saturday afternoon.
“He started asking for detectives, attorneys, all these
people to take care of him,” she said. “He felt he was
being mistreated.”
Frazier’s trial date has not yet been set.
