Nation IN BRIEF : ALABAMA : Abortion Doctor Killed in Mobile

A doctor who performed abortions was fatally shot when he confronted a man breaking into his car, and police officers said they didn’t know if the killing was the result of a robbery or related to his work. Dr. George Wayne Patterson was killed when he returned to his car in Mobile’s nightclub district, in an area where “quite a few robberies” have occurred, police investigator Allan Carpenter said. No arrests were made. Patterson, 44, had worked at Family Planning of Fort Walton Beach, Fla., and at the Bay City Womens Clinic in Mobile. He also owned the Women’s Medical Services Clinic in Pensacola, where Dr. David Gunn was killed in March.