Medical Malpractice Defendant Later Charged in Ohio Double Homicide Was Unreachable, Court Records Show

Attorneys were unable to serve a Clark County medical malpractice lawsuit to a man who was later arrested and charged in the fatal shooting of an Ohio couple, after process servers reported last year that he could not be located.

Michael McKee is facing murder charges in connection with the Dec. 30 deaths of his former wife, Monique Tepe, and her husband, Spencer Tepe, in Columbus, Ohio. He is currently awaiting extradition to Ohio from Illinois.

Court records show McKee was named as a co-defendant in a medical malpractice lawsuit filed in Clark County District Court in 2024. The case is scheduled for a jury trial in July 2026.

The lawsuit alleges that during a varicose vein procedure performed in Las Vegas in 2023, a physician’s assistant accidentally broke off a portion of a catheter and left it inside the patient’s body. McKee and another physician were accused of being responsible for training the physician’s assistant and were named as liable parties in the complaint.

A motion filed in November stated that multiple attempts to serve McKee with the lawsuit were unsuccessful. Process servers reportedly visited known home addresses without success and were unable to locate updated records indicating his whereabouts. One former colleague reportedly told a process server in October that McKee had “disappeared.”

According to court filings, a fax number was provided to the Nevada Medical Board in place of a phone number, further complicating efforts to locate him.

Records from the Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners indicate McKee held a medical license beginning in March 2023, which expired in June 2024. His listed specialty was vascular surgery.

The plaintiff’s attorney requested additional time to complete service, citing concerns that McKee may have been actively avoiding being served. The court was asked to allow service by mail and through published notice.

Original Source: Court Records