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Off-Duty LI Corrections Officer In Custody After Fatal Shooting Spree
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Jen Chung
Published Jun 16, 2010
Modified Oct 12, 2017
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Published Jun 16, 2010
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Nassau County Corrections officer Kim Wolfe is being held for allegedly fatally shooting two people and injuring another in what being described as a shooting spree. 1010 WINS reports, "Police say an off-duty female jail guard who had been romantically involved with a nurse's aide shot her to death outside a hospital early Wednesday, then fatally shot her own uncle and wounded her grandfather at a nearby home."
Stacie Williams, who worked in the maternity ward at Nassau University Medical Center, was on break outside the hospital when she was shot around 1:30 a.m. Police say that Wolfe then drove to her relatives' home in Hempstead; Newsday reports that Wollfe allegedly "shot her uncle dead and wounded her grandfather in the leg. Then, Wolfe took hostage a woman believed to be her niece, 23. She was later released unharmed... Wolfe drove around after the abduction, she called the home on Vermont Avenue, where hostage negotiators got in touch with her."
Wolfe refused to stop driving for hours. MyFoxNY said, "A Fox 5 News crew was working the story in Hempstead at around 6 a.m. when a beige, Mitsubishi Montero sped by at about 70 mph along Harriet Avenue. Police soon arrested the driver who turned out to be Wolfe."
Nassau police spokesman Det. Lt. Kevin Smith said of Williams' shooting, "This was not a random act. It appears there may be a domestic element to this. We believe there is a relationship. We don't know if it's social or romantic." Smith also said that Williams' son, who went to the hospital after hearing his mother was shot, was struck by a car "while crossing the street in front of the medical center."
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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