Woman Gave Doctor
Weapon After Fatal
CAMC Hospital Shooting,
Police Say
June 13th, 2009
WSAZ.COM
A man was killed after
police say his estranged
wife walked in to the ICU
at CAMC Memorial Hospital
and shot him.
It happened just before
2 p.m. on the third floor
of the Charleston Area
Medical Center’s Kanawha
City health facility.
Charleston Police say
53-year-old Rhonda Stewart
walked in and used a
handgun to shoot 56-year-old
Sammy Lee Stewart
in the head.
He died a short time later.
According to police,
Sammy Stewart was a
patient at the hospital
in the ICU and was soon
going to be transferred
to a regular room.
According to the
criminal complaint,
the couple had been
estranged for three years.
But on Saturday when
Rhonda went to visit Sammy,
some sort of argument broke
out and Rhonda was
asked to leave.
CAMC Kanawha City WV
A short time later,
she went back to the hospital
and shot him in the head
with a pistol,
the complaint states.
Then,
she walked out of the
room and handed the
pistol to a doctor.
Rhonda Stewart stayed
at the hospital after the
shooting and was arrested
a short time later.
She’s been charged
with first degree murder.
According to police,
Rhonda admitted
to the shooting.
The two lived in the Elkview
area of Kanawha County.
No one else was
hurt in the incident.
