A horrific murder suicide has left a town in shock after a doctor, 44, shot dead his ex-girlfriend, 22, before turning the gun on himself after she revealed on Facebook she had a new boyfriend.Dr Timothy Roses, a radiologist from Waterloo, Iowa, fatally shot Lindsay Nichols, of Evansdale, Iowa, in the chest before also shooting himself in the chest around 9pm on Wednesday night.
They were found near an intersection in Jesup, where her new boyfriend lived. Roses was already dead and Lindsay died later in hospital.
The pair were known to be in a relationship but it ended earlier this year.
Friends say Lindsay was concerned about his behaviour since the breakup.
Early on Wednesday, the pretty 22-year-old changed her relationship status to reveal she was in a new relationship with Chase Weber.
Hours later, she was dead. Read More
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Dr. Roses suffered a major traumatic brain injury in the fall of 2009. Following the accident he spent several days in the Baylor Neurosurgical ICU. Since the accident he has had significant personality changes, inability to cope with stress, obsessive compulsive behavior, and impulse control issues.
jakenichols said...
This is my cousin, Lindsay, we are all so devastated. Thank you for posting this and honoring her memory, the Doctor that shot her had suffered a brain injury years ago and was not "all there" they don't report that on TV though. She was not aware of it when she first started seeing him. It slowly showed itself though in his Obsessive Compulsive behavior.
March 24, 2012 9:07 AM
Did she know that he was married??
Yes. It was commonly known in the hospital that Dr. Roses was married with 3 boys. He and his wife had undergone fertility treatments which led to her pregnancy during 2011.
So sorry for the families that will suffer with this loss. My God bring you peace
She was also married when they started dating
I'm not sure why people are fixated on who was married and what not....a young beautiful was followed and gunned down...NO ONE ever deserves what happened here. So sorry for the loss....may God be with both families and heal everyone that was effected by such a tragic event.
The fixation of who was married and what not most likely stems from if they both had not been living a destructive lifestyles filled with affairs the tragedy would never have occurred. Where do people get off living how they want and being selfish and with no regard to others and yet expect there to be NO consequences?? Tim was not the only one acting this way. Lindsey didn't seem to care that she was married or that he was married with kids. Selfish
Just food for thought in general, but women should really evaluate relationshoips with men carefully. Any man that is married that wants to be with you, has something wrong with him. And any man that wants to pursue a married woman also has something wrong with him. This type of person has no boundaries, no respect for the ones he "loves", and is completely selfish. These are "characteristics" are pre-cursors towards violence. Also, b/c he (or she) might be involved with another person, it discourages them from getting help whe violence begins b/c you don't want to "out" the relationship.
Women: be careful whom you chose as a partner. If he treated his wife and mother of his children like crap, then why would he treat you any better?! Sorry that this unfortunate life lesson resulted in her untimely death. He was clearly a bad person.
She screwed up by having sex with him but she didn't deserve to die!!!! I would be flattered if a well-educated doctor hit on me, its human nature. I can't imagine the humiliation and devastation his wife must be feeling. First to hear your husband died, then to find out he was screwing around for years. Not to mention the girl's family whose lives have been ruined. Shame.
Very true!! No one deserves what happened to her & my heart aches for her family. I am a VERY close relative of Tim & we are shocked & devastated this has happened. There's no excuse. He did have a serious brain injury in the area that controls judgement, reasoning, logic and personality in 2009. We have been
concerned about his recent significant personality changes. The doctors told us
this might happen over time. This was Tim
in the flesh but this was not the Tim he'd
always been. Our family grieves for her
family as well as ours and we believe this
probably wouldn't have happened before
his accident. We tried to help him but it is
clinically impossible with this type of brain
injury. May God Bless Everyone!!
He did Love his family very much & you assuming Tim was functioning like a normal person is s flaw in you're judgement because u don't have all the facts about who he's been all of his life (I Do) and what this injury did to him. It has been heartwrenching to watch his decline & this ultimate tragic ending to his life and hers.
They both committed adultry breaking 1 of
the 10 Commandments & he broke
another by ending her life. Heartbreaking! She didn't deserve that!! There was no
cure or medication that would've helped
Tim & it was only going to get worse. All of
us will grieve for the rest of our lives!!!
Wow! Why are you assuming he hit on her? Also, I work around well-educated, good-looking doctors every day & have been for almost 12 years! I am no more flattered by their interest in me than anyone else because I'm not that insecure & shallow. If you show interest in them especially if they're twice your age, then all you care about is $$$$$!!!! Cheating is cheating and I confidently address this immediately
when they show & express interest in me especially
if there's children involved. There's nothing she could've ever done to deserve this. His brain injury did alter his ability to judge or reason. He Loved his family with all of his heart & soul. He lost his ability to make judgements!! I hurt for everyone involved!
I am an immediate Member of Tim's family & we are heartbroken for u & Ur family. I wish we could have helped Tim or somehow let her know!! It was clinically impossible to help him. There's no excuse!! She didn't deserve that! We will grieve forever for our loss and yours. Tim chgd Sooooo much after his accident & we are
shocked & devastated this happened. Our
hearts hurt so badly. I will miss Tim so
much & hate this is how he''ll be
remembered instead of the man he really was before the accident.
May God Bless your family!!
My heart goes out to both families. This is an absolute tragedy. How do parents get through the tragic lost of their only daughter? How does a wife and children cope with the fact that their husband and father took his own life over an affair? There is only one answer...The power of an almighty God who can heal all of our hurts. As I read these posts about how Dr. Roses had changed since his 2009 accident, I can't help but wonder if he should have been practicing medicine? Prayerfully, none of his patients were harmed by what is described in these posts as a lack in judgement.
I am reading this stuff about Dr. Roses...all I can say is wow! How can someone with a brain injury in 2009 be able to premediate a murder/suicide by renting the same color truck...following her to her boyfriend's house and shooting her! Not to mention the fact that he has had other girlfriends before Lindsay
Injury or not the man new what he was doing when he followed her endlessly, tried making nice with her friends to get to her, renting a truck to follow her, and getting a gun to kill her. If all of you VERY close family members KNEW what a fruitcake this man was why allow him to live everyday like everything was normal?? As his family if you knew about his compulsions, your to blame just as much as he is for not getting him help you knew he needed... its just a shame a young girl had to die for not wanting to be with a crazy person. our community is still reeling from the loss of her but you all make it sound ok because he had a brain injury??? now that is sad...put the blame where it belongs!!
To kat, it all is a tragedy but don't put all blame on one person... She was sleeping with another woman's husband so let's not act like she was some innocent sweet girl, unfortunately it takes only one wrong road to end it all and she took the wrong road... I am sorry for her loss but also for her family finding out she was the kind of person who could sleep with a married man and break one of gods 10 commandments
Anonymous...REALLY?? Thats all you got for him killing her?? That she broke one of the 10 commandments that no one even knows anymore? She wasnt an angel....but i guess she is now right? and I wasnt putting the blame on ONE person...IF you read my post again I was blaming EVERYONE that knew of his mental "illness". I can see where he got it from if you are one of his family members, you fruitcake
What a beautiful girl and killed for what ? Shove your commandments excuses. She nor anyone deserves anything like this. How very sad and sick of any of you blaming the real victim here. - Ben Bierman of Bettendorf , Iowa
No one deserved this, you are right. Tim did not plan his injury and the consequences. I cannot imagine what his family and children endured watching him change knowing they could do nothing to help him. They tried to support him and love him even though he had subsequently changed. I cannot imagine waking up tomorrow being a different me with a different way of thinking and knowing somewhere inside there was the person I had always known. Tragedy #1....
The second tragedy....e affair on the children, wife, and husband who did not choose these actions.
Tragedy #3....it goes without saying that the end was devastating to all involved....the two who died, their friends and family.
Tragedy #4....blaming others who had NO part of these two people's actions
Tragedy #5...and the BIGGEST of all....the Bible and it's Commandments could have been followed and none of this would have ever happened to begin with! We cannot disregard the Bible and it's teaching and expect good results.
Let us all remember them with the dignity they deserved before the choices but also realize that these actions lead to judgement and let us learn from them. That is all anyone can do at this point to honor the lives of Tim and Lindsay. Anything less....another tragedy!
So many viewers comment on Tim's accident yet no one tells the readers who are unfamiliar with Tim what accident? Was it a car accident? Something else? No one knows?
Reading all the comments I did stumble on another forum that spoke of Dr. Tim's lust for young radiology students BEFORE the accident so he was a cheat even before the accident.
Lots of affairs too numerous to mention he finally snapped well you know the rest.
Lindsay should have never slept with the good doctor that ended her life then committed suicide. If both of them were faithful to their
spouses this would not have happened.
You live by the sword, you die by the sword. Both parties are to blame. I do feel bad for
the doctor's children not for Lindsay's family was she was no angel.
"Tim did not plan his injury and the consequences"
No he didn't but he did PLAN to kill Lindsey. I agree with Ben, shove those commandments. They make no sense never have...its sexist religion. I would hope you have common sense to see that this man knew what he was doing....enough said.
Btw Lindsey wasn't married, she was divorced. As for the "good doctor", are you saying that she deserved it for sleeping with a married man. If that is what your saying your an idiot. People cheat, always have...doesnt mean they deserve to die.
Two People are Dead, Families are suffering. That is the Tragedy. Bottom Line.
I've had an affair with a married man before its not something you plan to happen I didn't go out looking for it either. it went on for 2 & a half years off & on. the first year it started he got a divorce hes going on marriage 3 & he still can't stop cheating. I felt bad for my actions cuase i come from a great family & taught me better so I apologized to his wife idk if she cared to believe me but i've learned my lesson & its sad lindsay passed away some people arn't mentaly stable she made the wrong choice in the affair she had but he had no right to take her life i feel bad for both familys.
There is absolutely no excuse for you and you should not be the person talking for the "family" of this murderer! Your as crazy as he was.... please stay out of Iowa...we dont want any more of his fruitcake family member's here....WOW...just WOW...it seems being adulterous runs in the family...you...are...an...idiot.
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