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U.S. NEWS Wednesday 24 January 2018

Suspect in killing of ex-Olympic chiropractor was patient

EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. Lake City Olympic Games,
(AP) — A chiropractor according to online biogra-
who worked at two Olym- phies and an interview he
pic games was brutally did with WJAR-TV in 2016,
stabbed to death by a shortly before the Rio Olym-
former all-state athlete, pics. He also worked for
whose complaint about teams including the United
the chiropractor's profes- States surfing, windsurfing
sional conduct caused him and biathalon teams, as
to voluntarily surrender his well as for the X-Games,
license to practice a few according to the Chiro-
months ago, police said on practic Society of Rhode
Tuesday. Island . He practiced for
Owen Morris, 21, of Warren, over 30 years, and owned
appeared in district court the Barrington Chiropractic
Tuesday on a first-degree and Sports Medicine Clinic
murder charge in the kill- in Barrington.
ing of Clive Bridgham, 67. A few months before the
East Providence Police dis- Rio games, in the spring
covered Bridgham's body of 2016, Bridgham began
on the floor of his home on treating a 19-year-old man,
Jan. 11, after they said his according to an agree-
long-term girlfriend called ment Bridgham entered Owen Morris appears in district court in Providence, R.I., on Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018, to face a first-
from out of state asking for into with the Department of degree murder charge. He is charged in the slaying of Clive Bridgham, who was found dead in his
them to check on him. Health when he voluntarily East Providence home, the police announced in a statement Monday night.
Morris did not enter a plea surrendered his license. The (Steve Szydlowski/Providence Journal /AP)
and was ordered held with- surrender was approved
out bail. His lawyer, Jason Nov. 1, 2017. According Department of Health said contact with a patient. He Providence prep school the
Knight, did not comment to the license surrender such records are confiden- was ordered to take reme- Wheeler School, where he
on the charges after the agreement, Bridgham al- tial, but the police chief on dial courses on maintaining played lacrosse and com-
hearing and did not return legedly "violated the pro- Tuesday confirmed that professional boundaries. A peted on the cross-country
messages seeking com- fessional boundaries of Morris was the patient who Health Department spokes- team. He went on to study
ment. Police said they had the chiropractic physician- made the complaint. In ad- man said he was taken off at the University of Rhode
determined a motive but patient relationship." The dition, in 2003, Bridgham's probation after he met the Island and founded the
would not publicly discuss it document does not speci- license was put on pro- stipulations of the 2003 or- company Lacrosse Shoot,
during a news conference fy what boundaries he vio- bation for three years af- der. Morris grew up in War- which makes lacrosse sticks
Tuesday afternoon. Chief lated. A spokesman for the ter he engaged in sexual ren and attended the tony out of bamboo.q
Christopher Parella said
they had determined the CEO: company working to stop 'Tide pod challenge'
crime was premeditated
due to "the totality of the NEW YORK (AP) — Procter arrest and even death. than clicks, views and likes," month telling viewers not to
circumstances," although & Gamble says it's work- CEO David Taylor called Taylor said. ingest the pods.
he would not detail why ing to stop the "Tide Pod the trend "dangerous" and In the first 15 days of the "What the heck is going on
they believed that. challenge," a social me- "extremely concerning" in year, poison control cen- people?" he said in the vid-
The killing "was particularly dia-fueled trend in which an online post Monday. He ters said that they have eo. "Use Tide Pods for wash-
brutal, I would say," Parella teenagers eat single-load said the company is work- handled 39 cases of inten- ing, not eating."
said, adding that the victim laundry detergent packets. ing with social media com- tional misuse among 13 to A New York City pizzeria
had multiple stab and cut The American Association panies to remove videos of 19 year olds. Poison control even launched "Pied Pods"
wounds. "This was, without of Poison Control Centers people biting into the de- centers handled 53 such because of the trend, offer-
question, a directed at- warned last week that it tergent, and asked adults cases for all of last year. ing rolls stuffed with cheese
tack." had seen a spike in teen- to speak with children To deter teenagers, P&G and pepperoni and
Bridgham was a sports agers eating the detergent about the hazards. released a 20-seond vid- topped with dyed cheese
medicine specialist and pods, which it says can "Let them know that their eo of football player Rob made to look like a deter-
worked at the Rio and Salt
cause seizures, respiratory life and health matter more Gronkowski earlier this gent pod. q