Funeral held for N.Y. hospital shooting victim

Father Francis X. Mazur of Erie County Medical Center, greets mourners before the funeral for Jacqueline Wisniewski at St. Martin of Tours Church in Buffalo, N.Y., June 16, 2012. / AP Photo/Gary Wiepert

(AP) BUFFALO, N.Y. - Mourners gathered Saturday for the funeral services of Jacqueline Wisniewski, who was gunned down in the basement of a Buffalo hospital by her surgeon ex-boyfriend.

A bagpiper, dressed all in black, accompanied the procession that brought the 33-year-old's body to the St. Martin of Tours Church. Tearful relatives and friends embraced on the sidewalk.

Wisniewski was killed Wednesday at Erie County Medical Center, where she worked as an administrative assistant.

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Police said she was shot by ex-boyfriend Timothy Jorden, a trauma surgeon at the hospital and a former army Special Forces weapons expert.

The 49-year-old physician was found dead Friday in woods near his home. Police said he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Saturday's funeral was private and closed to journalists.

Wisniewski had told friends that she was afraid of Jorden, who she said had once held her hostage with a knife.

Jorden's father told the Buffalo News in an interview published Saturday that his son been having problems since his mother died in a house fire in 2004.

"Things started to change," Timothy Vance Jorden Sr. told the newspaper. But he said he had never seen his son do anything violent. "I wished I could have told him, `Think of the memory of your mother and your children.' Maybe that would have brought him back to what we call reality."

[Rjh825]

A dr in Ohio based his wife to death.... This man held her hostage by knife point... Do you want to get rid of k Ives and gases too???? It's not the guns it's the people. This man was abusive and obviously unstable. It's not a gun control issue but a terrible terrible loss for a child and a family bottom line.

[smittyc]

Well they had 248 murders like this in Chicago so far this year. The message should be crystal clear.

[FactCheckOrgUser]

So Sad to hear about that! I hope Bloomie, has a good excuse for the Family, about how this woman was Gunned down, in a State, that has STRICT GUN CONTROL!

[lesserof2evil]

take your political agenda and shove it up your asss