Crime & Safety
Woman Fatally Shoots Boyfriend On Long Island: Police
BREAKING: The woman shot her boyfriend after a physical confrontation and faces a murder charge, police say.
CORAM, NY — A woman was arrested after Suffolk police said she fatally shot her boyfriend in their Coram home early Friday.
After a physical confrontation, Ashley Guimont, 44, shot and killed her boyfriend, Alex Carter, 47, on
Townehouse Drive around 2:30 a.m., police said. After shooting Carter, Guimont called 911, police said.
Carter was pronounced dead at John T. Mather Memorial Hospital in Port Jefferson, police said.
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Guimont was arrested and charged with second-degree murder, police said.
She will be held overnight at the Fourth Precinct and is scheduled to be arraigned at First District Court in Central Islip on Saturday.
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Detectives are asking anyone with information to call the Homicide Squad at 631-852-6392.
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