HUNTSVILLE (WBAP/KLIF) – The Texas Department of Criminal Justice released a statement on Tuesday related to the parolee charged with Capital Murder in the killings of two Dallas Methodist Hospital employees on the mother-baby unit over the weekend.
On Monday, the Methodist Police Chief said that his department was not notified that Nestor Hernandez would be at the hospital, or that he had been given permission to be there.
Hernandez was wearing an ankle monitor at the time of the shootings, but Dallas Police Chief Eddie Garcia said that monitor does nothing to prevent the violence that occurred on Saturday.
According to TDCJ, Hernandez was released from prison to serve the remainder of his sentence in the community.
“He was on electronic monitoring, which required him to be home unless out for an approved activity such as work or, as in this case, the hospital to visit a new born child. Parole supervision allows those previously incarcerated to transition back into their community, which includes visiting family members in hospitals,” TDCJ said in a statement. “There was not an indication that Hernandez would act out violently in a hospital, and allowing him the ability to visit loved ones in that setting would not be out of the normal course of supervision.”
DFW Hospital Council CEO Steve Love, on Tuesday, called for “common sense policies” that include notifying a hospital before a parolee makes a visit.
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