NURSING STUDENT SLAIN BY ABUSIVE DOCTOR EX IN DEADLY MURDER-SUICIDE SPREE

Gina Bryan­t’s promis­ing future was cut trag­i­cal­ly short by the man who should have pro­tect­ed her. The 25-year-old nurs­ing stu­dent had recent­ly fled the con­trol­ling clutch­es of her abu­sive ex Justin Wendling, a Michi­gan doc­tor. But he stalked the com­pas­sion­ate woman and set in motion a fatal plan.

Co-work­ers grew wor­ried after Bryant van­ished dur­ing her lunch break, receiv­ing strange texts from her phone. Video showed Wendling force Bryant into his car. Her fam­i­ly received a chill­ing call — Wendling had mur­dered Bryant and vowed to take his own life.

A fran­tic man­hunt led police across state lines. They found Bryant slain at an Illi­nois truck stop, killed in cold blood by the obsessed Wendling. He evad­ed cap­ture no longer, end­ing his own life with a gun­shot when cor­nered in Iowa.

Those close to Bryant mourned her promis­ing future and kind spir­it, cut down in her prime. As a Uni­ver­si­ty of Michi­gan-Flint nurs­ing stu­dent, her infec­tious smile bright­ened each day. Now, her fam­i­ly seeks jus­tice and heal­ing from unspeak­able tragedy at the hands of the man who was sworn to do no harm.