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officers were met by gunfire at the front door, and Guindon died at the hospital while two other
officers were critically wounded when 32-year-old Army Sgt.
Ronald Hamilton opened fire, Prince William County cops said yesterday.
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Crystal Hamilton, 29, was found dead in the house and later identified as the shooter’s wife. Police said Ronald Hamilton was arrested and charged with capital murder, first-degree murder, malicious wounding of an officer and use of a firearm, according to NBC 4. Neighbor James Gueydan said he was very saddened when he learnt that she was fatally shot on the first day of her job. “We will have a moment of silence for her at the school on Monday, at our next school board meeting, and we will remember her service to others on graduation day as well”.
Two other officers, Jesse Hempen, 31, an eight-year veteran of department; and David McKeown, 33, a 10-year veteran, were also shot. According to a June 2015 press release by the department when she graduated from basic recruit school, Officer Guindon was a graduate of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Fla., where she earned a bachelor’s degree in aeronautics.
Inside the home, police found a woman shot to death and an 11-year-old, who was unharmed, Hudson said. What she did share with us when we rehired her, she still felt like she still wanted to do this job and she couldn’t get it out of her blood.
David Guindon was buried with full military honors after killing himself the day after he returned home from Iraq, where he served with the New Hampshire Air National Guard, family told CBS News.
He’s accused of killing Guindon and his own wife and accused of shooting two other officers. She was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, and the family later moved to Merrimack, New Hampshire, her grandmother said.
But one woman had already been slain inside the northern Virginia home of a Pentagon worker, and Officer Guindon would be next.
“This is really a shock to us”, Dorothy Guindon said.
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A photo provided by the Prince William County Police Department shows, from the left, Officer Steven Kendall, and Officer Ashley Guindon with Lt. Col. Barry Bernard, deputy chief of the Prince William County, Va., Police Department. It escalated after she called 911, Hudson said. She is the 4th officer killed in the line of duty since 1970 in the history of the department.
