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Witness Tells of Dr. Tiller’s Last Moments


By By MONICA DAVEY, The New York Times


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WICHITA, Kan. — Dr. George R. Tiller was standing beside a refreshment table inside his church, discussing his fondness for doughnuts, when a man walked up, pressed a gun against the doctor’s head and fired, a fellow church member recalled on Tuesday.

“I wasn’t sure if it was a cap gun or what,” Gary Hoepner, the church member, testified in a hearing here that offered the first significant details of what happened on May 31, the day that Dr. Tiller, one of the nation’s only doctors to perform late-term abortions, was killed.

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