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Colleagues mourn loss of St. Louis physician who drowned
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ST. LOUIS – A local doctor who drowned in the Ozarks over the weekend is being remembered as a passionate doctor who cared about his patients, and loved fishing and music.
Dr. Richard Brasington worked as a rheumatologist and professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine. He was a board member for the Chamber Music Society of St. Louis, and secretary for the Ozark Fly Fishers.
An incident report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol said Brasington was wading in the North Fork River, upstream from the Sunburst landing, some time after 10 a.m. on Sunday when he drowned. He was pronounced dead at 2:15 p.m. by the Ozark County Coroner’s Office. Brasington was 71.
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Mark Gordon, executive and artistic director for the Chamber Music Society’s, said Brasington had been on the board for about five years. At one point, Gordon became his patient.
“He actually treated me as a patient. I had some back surgeries. And so I got to know him and he expressed interest in joining our board, because he was so interested in music,” Gordon said.
Gordon said Brasington was a respected physician, and he’ll be missed for his enthusiasm and love of music.
Dr. John Atkinson, a physician and professor at Washington University Medical Center, first met Brasington 25 years ago, when he was recruited to be the director of their training program and teaching students during their fellowships on how to become rheumatologists.
Atkinson said Brasington took care of them, taught, and trained them.
“He was kind of their grandfather, if you will, in many ways,” he said. “And also, if things didn’t go right, he would help them correct it, and teach them. And he did it in a very nice, congenial way.”
Brasington was someone his students looked up to.
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“Rick was very good at handling that type of thing and being an example for them,” Atkinson said. “Because what you do when you’re learning about how to take care of patients, you watch how your other doctors do that.”
Those who knew Brasington say he was caring, passionate and will be missed dearly.
“One thing that brings certainly his wife and the rest of us some comfort is that he died way too early but he died doing something that he loved so much,” Gordon said.
A teaching award is already set up in honor of Brasington, and a fellowship in his honor is already in the works.
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JEFFERSON COUNTY, Mo. – Two people are behind bars after a man reportedly attacked a Jefferson County deputy with a screwdriver during an attempted arrest over the weekend.
Prosecutors have charged Nicholas Davis, 47, and Amanda Davis, 45, of Dittmer, Missouri, with felonies in the investigation.
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The alleged attack followed a traffic stop of a driver in the 9500 block of Jones Creek Road on July 7, though the driver was not Nicholas or Amanda.
According to court documents obtained by FOX 2, Nicholas reportedly came out of his nearby home, yelled at a deputy and started approaching him while holding a screwdriver. The deputy initially ordered Nicholas to back away, then used pepper spray.
Per court documents, the deputy attempted to arrest Nicholas, who then struck him in the chest with the screwdriver. Amanda reportedly approached the deputy and pulled him away from Nicholas before both ran inside their home.
The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office says the situation prompted an hours-long standoff involving negotiators, a SWAT team and a K-9 deputy. The situation led to Nicholas refusing warnings and being bitten by a K-9.
Nicholas and Amanda are both jailed in the Jefferson County Jail without bond. Nicholas is charged with first-degree assault on a special victim and armed criminal action. Amanda is charged with resisting/interfering with arrest.
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ST. LOUIS — The new St. Louis schools superintendent will be officially sworn into office today. Dr. Keisha Scarlett took over the job in July after the retirement of Dr. Kelvin Adams. She was assistant superintendent in the Seattle Public School District. The installation ceremony is at 6:15 p.m. before the regular school board meeting.
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ST. LOUIS — A gasoline tanker truck crashed into a Metro transit center near Riverview and Hall Streets early Tuesday morning and knocked over a power pole. The pole is leaning on other power lines. Police have the area blocked off here because there is a downed power line. Ameren and Metro crews are also on the scene.
The incident happened around 12:30 a.m. It’s still unclear exactly what caused the crash, but we do that there was a second vehicle somehow involved. The airbags on that second vehicle did deploy.
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Police at the scene have not been able to give us a lot of details. Metro officials tell FOX 2 that the transit center here is operating this morning for passengers and buses. Access to certain areas will be limited here as clean up unfolds.
A Metro spokesperson says half of the station isn’t being used right now because of safety issues. It isn’t impacting overall bus operations, everything is just happening on the other side of transit center.
The extent of the damage to the actual transit center is still unclear, but I’m told it does not appear to be extreme. A Metro spokesperson tells me there were no injuries to any metro workers or passengers. The tanker driver also was not injured.
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