BUFFALO - Law enforcement officials across the country were asked Thursday to be on the lookout for a trauma surgeon and former military weapons expert sought in connection with the shooting death of his former girlfriend in a Buffalo hospital.
A pick-up order for Timothy Jorden, 49, has been transmitted to every law enforcement agency in the country, including local, state, and federal offices. The search for Jorden, now in its second day, includes officials with the FBI, Customs and Border Protection, and the US Marshals Service, according to Buffalo Police Commissioner Daniel Derenda.
Police were confident Jorden had not crossed the border into Canada, but Derenda said they do not know where he is or might be headed.
The search began Wednesday morning when Jacqueline Wisniewski, 33, was found shot to death in a stairwell at the Erie County Medical Center, where she and Jorden both worked....
Heather Shipley, a friend of Wisniewski, told WIVB-TV that Wisniewski feared Jorden. Wisniewski used to live with Jorden but left him because she believed he was having affairs with other women, Shipley said. When they broke up, he wouldn’t let go, Shipley said.
She said Wisniewski told her the doctor had put a GPS tracking device in her car and once held her captive in her home for a day and a half, wielding a knife.
“She told me if anything happened to her, that it was him,’’ Shipley told the station.
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"Suicide ends manhunt for surgeon" Associated Press, June 16, 2012
BUFFALO - A former Army weapons expert pursued after the shooting death of his former girlfriend apparently killed himself with a gunshot to the head, quelling the risk of more bloodshed and silencing perhaps the only voice that might have answered the central question: What caused a gifted trauma surgeon widely beloved as a lifesaver to end his life in a spasm of violence?
After a two-day nationwide manhunt, police found the body of a man believed to be Timothy Jorden in thick brush near the doctor’s Lake Erie shoreline home....
Authorities had been searching for Jorden since Wednesday morning, when 33-year-old Jacqueline Wisniewski was found shot to death in a stairwell at the Erie County Medical Center. Friends said Wisniewski was afraid of the 49-year-old Jorden and had broken off their relationship some time ago.
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