When medicines arrived at the home of Sarah and Ryan Shenx shortly after 2:40 on January 20, 2023, otherwise the healthy mother of two lay alone, unconscious of the alley as she struggled to breathe.
The situation worsened. Sarah never regained consciousness and nine days later she took her last breath.
What happened tonight in Knoxville, Tennessee, is full of speculation. Everyone agrees that Sarah still has to be alive, but the agreement ends there.
Nearly a year after his death, Ryan Shenx, an emergency room doctor, filed a lawsuit against the first respondents and the hospital, who cared for her, saying that their actions or omissions were killing Sarah. In January, Sarah’s parents filed their own case, saying that Ryan intended to stop Sarah from applying for divorce and was responsible for her death.
The court cases filed in the Knox District Court are sheds light on what happened.
Ryan Shenx accuses the first respondents and the hospital
Ryan’s trial is short and so much: everyone involved in Sarah’s care is to blame for her death. If the first reactors of the US medical response and the Knoxville Fire Department have dealt with the care of Sarah more effectively, it would be alive. The same applies to staff at the Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center, he says in the suit.
He says that the staff did not properly intuctly inturate the respiratory tract of Sarah, failed to perform the CPR and failed to take her to the hospital urgently. In general, he says, they do not follow acceptable care practices.
Sarah Shenx died on January 29, 2023. Her husband Ryan Schenx, an emergency department, filed a lawsuit, accusing her death of medical staff, who responded to his call 911 for help. Her parents filed a case, accusing her death of her husband.
Ryan’s trial provides scarce details about what happened at night, in which he called 911. He does not say how Sarah has breathed or how her condition has deteriorated. This does not mention marriage problems or that he and Sarah were separated.
Fort Sanders, Covenant Health (which owns Fort Sanders), an American medical response and the city of Knoxville has denied unlawful action in the legal documents in response to the Shanks trial.
Sarah Schex’s family: Ryan Shengx wanted to avoid divorce at all costs
Sarah split from Ryan and borrowed money to keep a divorce lawyer in the months before her death, her family says in their court case. He is said to have told friends in the suit that the divorce would be “uncomfortable” and “inaccessible”.
The two argued about the care of their two children of early age, and Sarah’s family called Ryan controls. He clone Sarah’s phone – essentially made a copy that he could see on a separate phone – so that he could get a “better picture of their marriage,” said a later family friend of the police.
Ryan Shanx’s lawyer, Gavin Shepherd, said a statement to Knox News, part of the USA Today network, which he called the family’s case against “fake, defamatory and malicious.” Ryan Schenx filed a request for a family case to be rejected.
“Dr. Schenx has never been charged with a crime related to the death of his wife, and he is convinced that the true facts associated with her death will continue to be revealed in the waiting case he has brought,” Shepherd said.
Night medical aid was summoned
At night, Sarah Schenx was taken to the hospital, Ryan called his parents separately and told everyone that he was considering buying a gun and that he had “suicide ideas”, according to the trial of Sarah’s family.
Later that evening, Sarah and Ryan were in a call dispute. Ryan told police Sarah drank several glasses of wine and took a sleep pills, according to the family trial. (It is later reported that the level of alcohol in Sarah’s blood is 0.1, according to the family’s case, which is considered legal drunk.)
Around 1:30 in the morning, Sarah woke Ryan to tell him that she had fallen into the bathroom and hurt her neck, according to the family’s case, which refers to the comments that Ryan made to Sarah’s friend that night. She returned to bed, but she got up again because she had a panic attack. He told the police Sarah told him that he thought he would die, the family’s case said.
In the end, Sarah made his way out to avoid awakening her children. When paramedics arrived, she was alone on the alley and unconscious, according to the trial of the family. Ryan Schenx told the police that he had come in a short time when they arrived.
Twelve minutes after the paramedics arrived, Sarah went into cardiac arrest, and the medics began compressions on the breast and took her to Fort Sanders.
Sarah Schenx’s family indicates other details about her condition
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The pH level in Sarah’s blood gas was alarmingly low, according to the trial. This shows that she is suffering from a severe lack of oxygen, the lawsuit said.
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The family says the Emergency Department staff at Fort Sanders were concerned about the fake game after a cat scan revealed damage to the tissues around her neck and an “abnormal air pocket” in her chest.
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The family says MRI has shown that Sarah has received a “global anoxic injury”, which occurs when the brain is deprived of oxygen.
Not to blame Ryan Shenx but called the death of Sarah “highly suspicious”
The trial of the family includes a reference to a note from the C, County District Prosecutor of County Charme Allen to the Knoxville police station detective, who was reviewing the case, a copy of which Knox news was received by requesting public records.
Alan has determined that she plans not to charge because Sarah’s autopsy is “unconvincing”. She called the case “bankrupt.” Her hands were tied.
Alan called the death of Sarah “highly suspicious” and said Ryan was the only other adult with her in the hours before being injured. Alan pointed out “evidence of instability in their marriage” and is worried about Ryan Shengx’s mental health leading to the death of his wife.
A statement from the Chief Medical Review of Knox Darinka Mileuslik-Poetan is also included, who examined the Shanks case in December.
Sarah’s prolonged hospital stay and donation of her organs after her death have challenged her to understand what happened, the medical examination said. The cause of Sarah’s death is categorized as “cannot be defined” with regard to her death certificate.
The Emergency Department doctor Ryan Shenx filed a lawsuit after the death of his wife Sarah Shengx in 2023, accusing the medical staff who healed her after he called 911 for help. Sarah Schenx’s parents filed a case, accusing Ryan a chance for their daughter’s death.
“We could neither prove nor exclude a fake game based on the lack of solid physical evidence of trauma,” writes Mileusnic-Polchan.
When they were reached by phone, Sarah’s mother declined to comment. The family lawyer, Don Bosch, did not answer a note looking for a comment.
Tyler Whitstone is an investigative reporter focused on reporting journalism. Contact Tyler by sending him an email to [email protected]. Follow it on X known as Twitter, @tyler_whetstone.
This article originally appeared on Knoxville News Sentinel: Suspicious Death of the mother of two pits of family against a doctor’s husband