Widower: Slain naturopath said ‘chemotherapy is for losers’

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP)- Police in Bowling Green, Kentucky, have arrested a man who they say walked into the office of a naturopathic caregiver and shot him dead.

Omer Ahmetovic has pleaded not guilty to a murder charge and was being held in the local jail Friday. The citation for his arrest does not describe a motive. His lawyer didn’t return phone calls.

But a lawsuit filed in January by Ahmetovic and his wife, Fikreta Ibrisevic, lays out a series of grievances against the caregiver, Juan Gonzalez.

As it turns out, Ibrisevic had cancer, and they blamed Gonzalez for making it worse. They say he dissuaded them from traditional medicine, saying “chemotherapy is for losers.” By the time she was eventually treated, it was too late. She died days before the shooting.

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