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A correction officer went on a blood-thirsty rampage in Long Island Wednesday, killing her ex-girlfriend and her own uncle during four hours of mayhem that also left the shooter's grandfather wounded, police said.
The suspected shooter also abducted her niece and hopped in a car, surrendering just before 6 a.m. during a traffic stop in Hempstead. Charges are pending against Kim Wolfe, 43, who was hospitalized after having trouble breathing.
"She loved her job," Patricia Bines said of her slain sister, Stacie Williams, a nurse's aide. "She loved working with babies. This is the worst day of our lives."
Williams, 45, was working the night shift at Nassau University Hospital about 1:30 a.m. She was standing near the front entrance and on a cigarette break when she was confronted by her former lover.
The mother of three was shot several times and died in front of the same hospital where she worked in the maternity ward.
Compounding the anguish for Williams' family was an injury to the murder victim's son. He was struck by a car as he ran across Hempstead Turnpike in a desperate dash to reach his dying mother's side.
"She lived life like it was golden," said her other sister, Nicole Rogers, 38. "That was the motto for her."
Williams worked at the hospital for 23 years, union officials said.
After the first shooting, Wolfe drove about 3 1/2 miles to Hempstead.
Police said more gunfire erupted there about 2 a.m. Wolfe's 56-year-old uncle was shot to death and her grandfather was shot in the leg. Their names weren't immediately released.
"I would have never known this was coming," said Ron Lanier, 46, who worked with Wolfe at the Nassau County Correctional Facility in East Meadow. "She loved her grandfather, she was over there all the time."
Jerry Laricchiuta, President of the Civil Service Employees Association local 830 union, said he met Wolfe when he worked at the jail and could not believe he was capable of such brutality.
"I knew Wolfe," he said. "She was a character, but nothing that would ever indicate she would ever do anything like this."
Wolfe drove away from the scene of the second killing in her Mitsubishi Montero. Police said Wolfe took her 23-year-old niece as a hostage. Cops pulled her over about 5:45 a.m. and arrested her. The niece wasn't injured.
Officers found a handgun in Wolfe's car.
The suspect has been a correction officer for 19 years and worked the midnight shift supervising inmates at the county jail next to the hospital, said Liz Consolo, spokeswoman for Nassau County sheriff's office.
Source: NY Daily News
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