Detective: Video shows Mississippi doctor discussing plot to kill ex-wife’s divorce attorney

GREENWOOD, Miss. — A well-known Mississippi oncologist accused of orchestrating a plot to kill his ex-wife’s divorce lawyer said he wanted a picture of the slain attorney with a “bullet between his eyes,” according to testimony Wednesday.

The lawyer was never hurt, though, in part because state agents were tipped off to the possible $20,000 murder-for-hire plot and were waiting at the attorney’s office when the hit man showed up. A shootout occurred and when the firing stopped, the alleged assassin, clad in a black ski mask, was dead and his associate was severely wounded. A bullet also grazed an attorney general’s office investigator.