A plastic surgeon is among two people arrested in the slaying of a fellow Texas doctor in what police are investigating as a love triangle.
Police on Monday announced the arrests of Dr. Thomas Michael Dixon of Amarillo and David Neal Shepard.
Documents in an arrest warrant suggest Dixon arranged to have Dr. Joseph Sonnier III killed because Sonnier was dating Dixon's ex-girlfriend.
An affidavit says Shepard's roommate allegedly told police that Shepard confessed to shooting Sonnier in his Lubbock home last Wednesday. Sonnier was chief pathologist for Covenant Health System in Lubbock.
Dixon is a well-known surgeon in Amarillo. Police said at a news conference Monday that he paid Shepard three bars of silver - worth a total of $9,000.
No one answered the phone Monday at Dixon's practice.
UPDATED: Plastic surgeon arrested in Lubbock doctor's death
POSTED: 12:05 PM Jul 16 2012
UPDATED: 4:13 PM Jul 16 2012
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