- May 2024: Original malpractice lawsuit filed against McKee’s Las Vegas employer (Las Vegas Surgical Associates).
- Sometime after May 2024: McKee leaves Las Vegas, moves to Chicago area.
- October 2024: McKee obtains Illinois medical license.
- July 2025: McKee buys a $400,000 penthouse in Chicago.
- Sept. 29, 2025: Amended complaint filed in Clark County Court (Nevada), naming McKee for allegedly overseeing botched surgery where an 8.6-inch catheter shard broke off in patient’s leg, causing bleeding, edema, pain, and disfigurement.
- Oct. 9, 2025: Process server learns from McKee’s co-worker that he “just disappeared.”
- Nov. 10, 2025: Plaintiff’s lawyer files motion for service by publication (due to inability to locate McKee).
- Dec. 30, 2025: Monique Tepe (39, McKee’s ex-wife) and Spencer Tepe (37, her dentist husband) murdered in Columbus, Ohio home; their children (ages 4 and 1) asleep nearby.
- Jan. 6, 2026: Nevada judge approves service by publication for McKee.
- Jan. 10, 2026: McKee arrested in Rockford, Illinois (450 miles from Columbus), booked into Winnebago County Jail awaiting extradition to Ohio. Tracked via neighborhood video showing vehicle arriving/leaving crime scene; employed at OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center.
- Upcoming: Extradition to Franklin County, Ohio for arraignment on two counts of aggravated murder with premeditation; malpractice trial set for July 2027 (damages >$50,000; unclear insurance coverage).
Allegations and Context
Prosecutors link McKee to the murders through surveillance video identifying a suspect and vehicle tied to the Tepes’ home around the time of the killings, shortly after the couple’s fifth anniversary. The malpractice suit claims McKee breached care standards by failing to train/supervise a co-worker, leaving foreign material in the patient. His “disappearance” from Las Vegas coincided with dodging service, but he’d relocated and continued practicing in Illinois. Motive for the murders—over eight years post-divorce—remains undisclosed, with details expected at arraignment, possibly this week.
This case highlights challenges in serving elusive defendants and cross-state tracking in both civil malpractice and criminal probes. McKee faces potential personal financial liability in Nevada due to no mandatory malpractice insurance there or in Illinois.
