New Details: Rookie Police Officer Fatally Shot in Prince William Co

A police officer was fatally shot a day after being sworn in, and two of her colleagues were wounded while responding to a reported argument at a northern Virginia home, authorities said.

Pentagon employee Ronald Hamilton, 32, has been arrested on murder charges in the case. She graduated in forensics and had an internship at the Prince William County Police Department where she returned after six years in the Marine Corps., said department’s head Stephan M. Hudson.

Hamilton is accused of shooting and killing Officer Ashley Guindon after she answered a domestic violence call at the Hamilton home Saturday evening.

He opened fire on the police, killing rookie officer Ashley Guindon and seriously wounding two others before he surrendered, cops said. Police recovered two guns from the scene: a handgun and a rifle.

The couple’s 11-year-old son was home at the time of the slayings and is being cared for by relatives, Hudson said.

At Inova Fairfax Hospital, where the three officers were flown by helicopter after the shooting, more than 100 patrol cars lined the roads outside early Sunday morning to stand vigil and escort Guindon’s body to the medical examiner. Details about their injuries were not released.

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“This is really a shock to us”, her grandmother Dorothy Guindon told The Associated Press.

Officer McKeown has been with the Prince William County Police Department for 10 years and Officer Hempen has been with the department for eight years.

Guindon, who had a master’s degree in forensic science, had been sworn in as a police officer on Friday, an occasion the department marked with a celebratory tweet.

Black drape being placed here at Prince William Co. She reapplied and was rehired.

“When you talk about her commitment to service, certainly we can all draw a pretty good idea of the content of her character and the things she could offer, if she had opportunity to do so”, Doyle said. The suspect was expected to be arraigned in Prince William County Court Monday morning, he added.

“It’s going to be tough getting over this one”, she said. He said he did not know the exact dates of when she started and left.