Crime & Safety

Former Jail Guard Sentenced to 22 Years in Prison for Double Murder

Kim Wolfe admitted to killing her ex-girlfriend and uncle during a shooting in June of 2010.

A former guard at the in East Meadow was sentenced to 22 years in prison for a 2010 shooting that lead to the death of her ex-girlfriend and uncle, according to the Associated Press.

In September, 2010, Kim Wolfe, 44, of Baldwin, to the "entire indictment against her," according to a release from the Nassau County District Attorney's office. The charges included two counts of second-degree murder, second-degree kidnapping, first-degree assault and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon.

Police accounts of the incident say that, in June, 2010, Wolfe had been trying to reconcile with her ex-girlfriend, Stacie Williams, 45, a nurse's aide who worked in the maternity ward at in East Meadow when the two argued and Wolfe reportedly shot Williams several times in the chest, killing her.

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Then, according to police, Wolfe sped to a nearby relatives' home in South Hempstead where she fatally shot her 56-year-old uncle, Marshall Williams, Jr.; wounded her 88-year-old grandfather, Marshall Williams and then kidnapped her niece as she drove her Mitsubishi SUV bound for Atlantic City, NJ. Both Williams men were unrelated to Wolfe's ex-girlfriend, Stacie Williams.

Wolfe eventually surrendered to police later that morning with the assistance of a Hempstead Police Officer who had training as a hostage negotiator. Wolfe's niece was returned unharmed.

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