KMID\/KPEJ<\/span>:<\/a><\/p>\nMcCowan was visiting the hospital because his girlfriend was in labor. According to one nurse, McCowan approached her at the nurse\u2019s station and grabbed her arm and made an \u201cunintelligible statement\u201d. He was asked to leave the area and nurses said he then began running back and forth in the hall. The nurses called McCowan\u2019s actions \u201codd and unreasonable\u201d.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\nMcCowan then reportedly approached a new mom who was holding her newborn in a baby carrier while waiting to be discharged. The nurses said McCown began focusing his attention on the newborn, but briefly walked away when the new mother moved her child from his line of sight. A short time later, nurses said they heard stomping and then saw McCowan running toward them at full speed while yelling and screaming. <\/em><\/p>\nMcCowan then charged all three nurses and tried to enter the nursery, which was locked and inaccessible to the public; McCowan reportedly pushed one nurse to the ground while trying to break into the nursery. After an unsuccessful attempt to gain access, McCowan grabbed the newborn in the carrier from its mother and took the baby into the Lactation Room. A nurse followed McCowan inside and reportedly saw him with his hands around the baby\u2019s neck. Nurses said the infant\u2019s face changed color from lack of oxygen before they were able to wrestle the baby away and remove him from the Lactation Room.<\/em><\/p>\nAt that point, a respiratory therapist, who heard yelling and came to investigate, saw McCowan force his way into the nursery, this time, successfully.<\/em><\/p>\nThe therapist ran to the nursery and saw McCowan grab a newborn and begin strangling her with both hands. According to the witness, McCowan then picked up the baby, who had since turned blue, by her neck and began to shake her.<\/em><\/p>\nThe therapist said McCowan said \u201cdie\u201d to the infant and made a move as if he were going to throw her to the ground. The woman caught up to McCowan at that point and tried to slowly pull him to the ground in order to keep the child from falling. The therapist stayed with McCowan and the newborn, protecting her head in the process, until help arrived.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\nSpeaking from my own recent experience, I found myself hyper-protective of my twin boys when they were born. They were my first kids \u2013 at age 51 for me. My wife, facing a complicated pregnancy and delivery, told me to stay with the boys as they were taken to the neonatal intensive care unit. Yes, ma\u2019am.<\/p>\nImage by Boch.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nI can say right now that if anyone like an out-of-control McCowan had approached and attacked any of those half-dozen nurses, taking my twin boys the 400-some yards from the operating room to the NICU, they would have likely departed this mortal coil with a lot more holes than they were born with.<\/p>\n
For the next two weeks, I lived in that NICU room watching over them in protective daddy bear mode. I saw other fathers, often sleep-deprived, doing the same with their newborns.\u00a0 They, too, looked pretty serious.<\/p>\n
Even if one of those fathers in the gun-toting state of Texas didn\u2019t have a gun on his hip at the hospital that evening (which, actually, is quite likely as hospitals are one of the few places an LTC holder is not allowed to carry in Texas), I\u2019m pretty sure they probably would have gone medieval on Mr. McCowan at the sight of him strangling their newborn child.<\/p>\n
Again, the fact that McCowan lived that night means he won life\u2019s lottery. Hopefully he\u2019ll use the rest of his days, both in his coming prison term if convicted and later out of prison, to add positive meaning to his existence.<\/p>\n
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