Career
In 2006 he was killed at his office in Bethesda, Maryland, by a 19-year-old patient. Doctor Fenton obtained his medical qualification from George Washington University School of Medicine in 1979 and psychiatric qualification from Yale and was a staff member at Chestnut Lodge for more than 15 years. He worked for the National Institute of Mental Health as researcher and academic, writing a chapter on therapy for schizophrenia in a leading psychiatry textbook and had a significant impact on his clinical profession.