North Babylon woman pleads in shootings

A Nassau County judge told a former correction officer Wednesday he hopes she will "never walk the streets as a free woman again" moments before she pleaded guilty to shooting her ex-girlfriend and uncle to death.

Judge David Ayres promised to sentence Kim Wolfe, 44, to 22 years to life in prison for Wolfe's actions on June 16, 2010, which police say also included wounding her grandfather and taking her niece hostage for several hours.

Ayres said he would recommend that the parole board not release her.

Wolfe, of North Babylon, pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree murder, first-degree assault, second-degree kidnapping and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon.

She will be sentenced Nov. 2.

Prosecutor Michael Walsh told Ayres that his office recommended that Wolfe be sentenced to 50 years to life.

Patricia Bines, whose sister, Stacie Williams, was Wolfe's ex-girlfriend and first victim, wasn't satisfied.

"There is no justice," she said as she left the Mineola courthouse. "She destroyed two families. She destroyed our lives."

In court, Williams' other sister, Nicole Rogers, wept openly, her head back and a handkerchief covering her eyes.

Wolfe's lawyer, Michael DerGarabedian of Rockville Centre, said his client is a well-meaning person who did a terrible thing.

Her father had recently died and she was "swinging between madness and suicide," DerGarabedian said.

"This was a good person who went over the edge," he said. "I think you're seeing a better person now, accepting the consequences of her actions."

DerGarabedian said he expects Wolfe to be kept in protective custody throughout her prison term because inmates are likely to mistreat former correction officers.

Speaking in a quavering voice, Wolfe admitted to Ayres that she shot Williams, a nurse's aide, multiple times outside the Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow.

Then regaining her composure and speaking in a loud, clear voice, she acknowledged to Ayres that, after killing Williams, she drove to the home of her 56-year-old uncle, Marshall Williams Jr., in Hempstead, and shot him to death.

Wolfe said she then shot and wounded her 88-year-old grandfather, Marshall Williams Sr., and took her niece, Mary Josey, hostage for several hours before surrendering to police.

Marshall Williams Sr. has said his granddaughter is "harmless" but became distraught after her father died of cancer.