Policewoman killed on her first day

A policewoman was shot and killed on her first day at work
Ashley Guindon ... was fatally shot here on her first day in the job. Picture: AP
A US policewoman was tragically shot and killed only hours into her first day at work.
An Army staff sergeant assigned to the Pentagon has been arrested for the murder of 29-year-old Ashley Guindon.
Ronald Hamilton, 32, is accused of shooting and killing Guindon after she answered a domestic violence call at the Hamilton home Saturday evening. Two other officers were hospitalised with injuries.
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.
The death of Guindon 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 honours on Aug. 26, 2004.
“He came home and took his own life,” said Dorothy Guindon, Ashley’s grandmother.
Ashley was his only child.
Ashley was born in Springfield, Massachusetts. The family later moved to Merrimack, New Hampshire, according to her grandmother. “This is really a shock to us,” Dorothy Guindon said. “Ashley was such a nice person.” Officer Brandon Carpenter at the county’s adult detention centre says Hamilton is being held without bond at the jail on charges that include murder of a law enforcement officer, first-degree murder charge, two counts of malicious assault and two counts of use of a firearm during a felony.
Hamilton is scheduled to be arraigned Monday morning.
Prince William County Commonwealth’s Attorney Paul Ebert told The Associated Press on Sunday morning that the gunman’s wife was the victim in the domestic incident. He did not provide her name. The shooting occurred Saturday evening at Hamilton’s home in Woodbridge, where neighbours say he lived with his wife and their 10-year-old son.
A picture of Guindon was posted to the department’s Twitter page on Friday with a tweet that read, “Welcome Officers Steven Kendall & Ashley Guindon who were sworn in today & begin their shifts this weekend. Be Safe!” It is not known if the other officer in the tweet was involved in the shooting incident.

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