Florida Lyft Driver Arrested and Charged with Manslaughter after Removing Wrong Organ as a Surgeon

A Florida man was arrested in April 2026 after being charged with manslaughter for the death of William Bryan, who died in 2024 after he operated on him as a surgeon, removing the wrong organ. In a bizarre twist, the Walton County Sheriff's Office arrested the former surgeon as he was working as a Lyft driver, after being informed that he had an active felony warrant.

Dr. Thomas Shaknovsky credit: Walton County Sheriff's Office

It wasn't "business as usual" for Dr. Thomas Shaknovsky on April 13, 2026, when Walton County Sheriff's Office pulled him over in his Mitsubishi SUV near a busy intersection in Miramar Beach, Florida.

Deputies Arrest Dr. Thomas Shaknovsky Working as a Lyft Driver

NBC News reported that Shaknovsky was placed under arrest at a busy intersection on April 13 for manslaughter. Deputies pulled him over for a felony warrant for the death of 70-year-old William Bryan in 2024. Bryan died after Dr. Shaknovsky removed his liver, when the surgery was supposed to remove his spleen. Bryan had catastrophic blood loss, which led to his death. Shaknovsky also faces a medical negligence lawsuit after a surgery on Dorothy Dorsett, where she died after Shaknovsky removed a mass from her body in 2023. 

NBC News reported that Shaknovsky's medical license was suspended about a month after Bryan died in 2024.

When confronted by police, Shaknovsky asked, "May I ask what this is about?" and the police informed him that it was for a manslaughter charge from when he was operating on patients as a surgeon.

When deputies opened the rear door of his Mitsubishi SUV, two women got out, who told police they were on vacation and Shaknovsky had picked them up from a hotel as their Lyft driver. The women were scared they were being robbed at gunpoint. One of the women was heard making a joke, "We're not using Lyft again...from now on, we're using Uber."

According to NBC News, Shaknovsky had been operating as a Lyft driver using his middle name "Jacob" for more than a year, with a five-star rating for over 3,000 rides.

A Lyft spokesperson said the following after the incident:

"As soon as we became aware of the driver's arrest, we removed them from the Lyft platform, and have been in contact with the ride requester to offer support." -Lyft spokesperson

 Walton County Sheriff's Office said that Shaknovsky and his attorney were given "ample notice to voluntarily turn himself in before he was pulled over." 

Spokeswoman Corey Dobridnia for the  Walton County Sheriff's Office said:

"Shaknovsky knew that he had a felony warrant, and he still chose to put people in his vehicle, and he ran that risk. He has a felony warrant and a felony stop requires guns drawn, all of that."

John More and Mr. John King Email Phishing Scams

Is this John More or Mr. John King

From: John More
Subject: Re Re 8th of September
email: bas848kay@yahoo.co.jp

Dear Friend,

I am John More the Manager, Bills And Exchange at the Foreign Remittance Department in a Bank. Actually, I have a very urgent & confidential Business Proposition for you & for our mutual interest. On the 6th of March 2001,our Customer, an American National, late Jeremiah J. Ahern , an Oil Merchant / Contractor with the Federal Government of Nigeria, deposited, a valued amount of US$32Million in my branch.Upon maturity, I sent a routine notification to his forwarded address but got no reply. After a month we sent a reminder, & finally we discovered from his contract employers NNPC, that late Jeremiah J. Ahern, until his death Twelve (12) years ago in a ghastly terrorist attack to American Airline flight 175 from Boston to Los Angeles,crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center (WTC) with 86 people on board. All occupants of the Aeroplane unfortunately lost their lives.

John More Will issued in the event of Death, Funds available

On further investigation, I found out that he did not leave a WILL and all attempts to trace his Next of kin were rootless. I therefore made further investigation and discovered that late Jeremiah J. Ahern, did not declare any Next of kin in all his official documents.This sum US $32 Million is still floating in the bank and the interest is being rolled over with the principal sum at the end of each year. No one came forward to claim it. According to Nigeria Laws, at the expiration of 12 years, the money will revert to the Ownership of the Nigerian Government if nobody applies to claim the funds.Consequently,my proposal is that I will like you as a foreigner to stand in as a Next of kin of late Jeremiah J. Ahern . This is simple. All I require is your honest and co-operation to enable us see this deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from a breach of the law. I will want you to send to me on your return email, the following information for the transfer in your favor in the event of death:

Information needed to access Death fund

1) Your Full Name:

(2) Residential Address:

(3) Phone, Fax and Mobile :

(4) Profession, Age and Marital Status:

(5) Company/Business Name:

Let's consider that our ratio of sharing will be as stated Thus 1. I as the originator of the fund will take 50% of the transferable 2. You as the Manager of the Fund will take 50% of the transferable fund.

This Death Will is Confidential, but the Fund is Public

Most importantly, CONFIDENTIALITY as what I saw as the life wire to the success of the transfer of this death fund must have to be emulated between you and me. You have to use this media to promise me that you will no in anyway expose the content of this transaction to anybody be it your Friends, Colleagues and Co-Workers. I #will also want you to send your reply to this email:(john_more1971@yahoo.com) as soon as you get this mail to enable us discuss on the modalities and processes for success of this transaction. Thanks for your anticipated cooperation and understanding.

I wait for your kind response.

Regards,

John More

------------------------------------------------------------------------

Next: Mr. John King Email Phishing Scam

From: Mr. John King

email: eurosistemimelfi@alice.it

subject: Contact him with your full information

I am Mr. John King.

We wish to inform you that your over due Inheritance compensation fund which we 
are agreed to pay you in fiscal cash, and the fund is already sealed and 
package with a security proof box the sum of $11.7 millions US Dollar, and your 
package is in Miami Florida USA. convey by Int'l diplomatic agent  Mr. Mark 
Davidson, he is currently in airport with your consignment.

Quickly contact him with your full information, your full name, resident 
address, phone number, name of your nearest airport, for him to locate your 
home with your package, forward your full information to his Email: 
(makdavidso2000@gmail.com), Name: Mr. Mark Davidson, for immediate delivering of 
your package.

Regard's
Mr. John King