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WOODBRIDGE, Va. (AP) — Authorities say an Army staff sergeant assigned to the Pentagon has been arrested on murder and other charges in the death of a Virginia police officer and another person.
Ronald Hamilton is being held without bond on charges that include murder of a law enforcement officer. He is accused of fatally shooting Officer Ashley Guindon (GWIN'-duhn) after she answered a domestic violence call at Hamilton's home in Woodbridge. Two other officers were wounded.
The shooting occurred Saturday evening at Hamilton's home in Woodbridge, where neighbors say he lived with his wife and their 10-year-old son.
Prince William County Commonwealth's Attorney Paul Ebert tells The Associated Press that the gunman's wife was other person killed. He didn't provide her name.
The suspect is an active duty Army staff sergeant assigned to the Joint Staff Support Center at the Pentagon, according to Cindy Your, a Defense Information Systems Agency spokeswoman based at Fort Meade, Maryland.
Guindon's death was just the latest tragedy to strike the family. Her father, David, committed suicide the day after he returned home from Iraq, where he served with the New Hampshire Air National Guard. He was buried with full military honors in 2004.
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043-c-08-(Matthew Barakat, AP correspondent)-"garages manicured lawns"-AP correspondent Matthew Barakat reports that the shooting occurred after police responded to a domestic call in a Woodbridge, Virginia neighborhood, about 30 miles from Washington. (28 Feb 2016)
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044-c-15-(Matthew Barakat, AP correspondent)-"the medical examiner"-AP correspondent Matthew Barakat reports that when word got out that an officer had been killed, hundreds of others showed up at the hospital to show support. (28 Feb 2016)
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APPHOTO NY107: 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. Officer Ashley Guindon was shot and killed Saturday, Feb. 28, 2016, and two of her colleagues were wounded in a confrontation stemming from a call about an argument. Guindon and Kendall were sworn in on Friday, and Guindon was working her first shift with the Prince William County Police Department when she was killed. (Prince William County Police Department via AP) (28 Feb 2016)
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