Suffolk Man Guilty In Ex-Girlfriend’s Murder

RIVERSIDE, NY — A Medford man was found guilty Thursday of his ex-girlfriend’s murder, Suffolk District Attorney Ray Tierney said.

Wayne Chambers, 51, was found guilty of second-degree murder after a jury trial for the fatal stabbing of his former girlfriend, Sandra McIntosh, in 2021.

Tierney said the “domestic violence murder” of McIntosh was "a tragedy that should not have
happened.”

He urged anyone who is or knows someone who is a victim of domestic violence to contact the police or his office "to help us prevent tragedies like this one."

The evidence at trial established that on July 22, 2021, at around 7:43 p.m., Chambers
picked up McIntosh after her nurse’s shift at Stony Brook University Hospital was over, prosecutors said.

He had dropped her off earlier and had been driving her 2010 white Lexus RX350, according to prosecutors.

Chambers had previously been in a relationship with McIntosh for around six years but had broken up months before the fatal stabbing, prosecutors said.

Chambers violently stabbed McIntosh, 46, of Medford, at least 25 times including in her neck and back, puncturing her heart and lung, according to prosecutors.

At about 8:03 p.m. a “911” caller reported seeing Chambers in the same vehicle driving
erratically and then stopping the vehicle on Woodland Avenue in Holtsville, prosecutors said.

Witnesses saw Chambers outside the Lexus in a physical altercation with McIntosh, according to prosecutors.

They heard McIntosh screaming and when they came out, saw Chambers physically assaulting McIntosh and trying to drag her out of the woods by her hair, prosecutors said.

Once Chambers saw the witnesses, he fled and jumped into McIntosh’s Lexus, and sped away, according to prosecutors.

McIntosh died within two hours of the fatal attack.

After the incident, the Suffolk police tracked Chambers to a location in the Bronx, prosecutors said.

It was there that McIntosh’s 2010 white Lexus RX350 was found, according to prosecutors.

Red staining that appeared to be blood was seen on both the exterior and interior of the vehicle, prosecutors said.

It tested presumptively positive for blood, but many of those stains contained mixtures of DNA between Chambers and McIntosh, according to prosecutors.

Surveillance video evidence recovered across the street from McIntosh’s vehicle was found in the Bronx It showed the white SUV pulling up at around 10:39 p.m. on July 22, 2021, prosecutors said.

A man can be seen getting out of the driver’s side of the vehicle and walking away with what appeared to be a cellular phone in his hand, according to prosecutors.

Police testified that they spoke with a female acquaintance of Chambers, whose home was around one block away from where McIntosh’s vehicle was found, prosecutors said.

In sum and substance, she stated Chambers went to her home in the Bronx on the evening of July 22, 2021, and upon arriving at her home, she saw that Chambers had a cut on one of his index fingers that was covered by a Band and a bloody spot on his green shirt, according to prosecutors.

Cell site data placed Chamber’s cell phone near the murder scene, immediately after the murder, and it connected to a cell site within a mile of where McIntosh’s vehicle was found, coinciding with the surveillance video that captured the SUV being parked in the Bronx, prosecutors said.

On July 30, 2021, Suffolk’s Homicide Squad, Newburg City Police Department, the U.S. Marshals Service Fugitive Task Force, and New York State Police found Chambers at a hotel in Newburg and placed him under arrest.

Chambers is due back in court on Jan. 9 for sentencing and faces up to 25 years to life in prison.

Patch has reached out to his attorney, Ian Fitzgerald of Central Islip, could not be reached for comment.