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Testimony continued Tuesday in the trial of Dr. Ana Maria Gonzalez as co-workers testified about trying to save Dr. George Blumenschein’s life.
Doctors told the jury Blumenshein is lucky he survived the poison that prosecutors say Gonzalez used to lace his coffee.
“His kidneys were failing and the amount of acid in his blood was quite severe,” said Dr. Kristen Price, a witness for the prosecution.
Dr. Gonzalez is on trial, charged with aggravated assault. Her defense attorneys say she did not poison anybody.
She and Dr. Blumenschein were having an affair while he was still living with his longtime girlfriend, Evette Toney.
“She told me that Evette Toney didn’t like her,” testified Dr. Kristen Price, “and she didn’t like that they spent so much time together.”
On the morning of January 27, 2013, Dr. Blumenschein and Dr. Gonzalez had sex and drank vodka.
Prosecutors say Dr. Gonzalez then forced her lover to drink two cups of coffee, allegedly laced with a component of antifreeze.
Dr. Price testified to seeing signs of the chemical, called ethylene gylcol, in Dr. Blumenschein’s body. She alerted police.
“There have been people who have used that in a suicide attempt,” Dr. Price testified, “or you hear it more commonly in people that are trying to hurt another person.”
Agencies/Canadajournal
