EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – Police won’t comment on the motive of a man charged with fatally stabbing a former chiropractor who’d worked at two Olympic games, but they say he was a former patient who filed a complaint saying the chiropractor had violated professional boundaries.
Owen Morris, 21, was held without bail Tuesday in the killing of 67-year-old Clive Bridgham, who was found dead in his home Jan. 11.
The complaint Morris filed with state licensing authorities resulted in Bridgham surrendering his license to practice on Nov. 1.
It includes few details, and police released few specifics about their investigation on Tuesday, but they say they believe the killing was premeditated.
East Providence Police Chief Christopher Parella calls the crime “particularly brutal.” He says Bridgham was found with multiple stab and cut wounds.
