An Air National Guard member accused of killing his two toddlers and their mother had an altercation with a police officer while on his way to the Staten Island Courthouse in St. George Monday afternoon, prompting a large police response and scrapping his first court appearance, according to the NYPD.
Shane Walker, 36, of South Beach, was being transferred from a Brooklyn mental facility to Criminal Court for his arraignment in the murders when the incident occurred about 5 p.m.
An NYPD spokesman said that Walker allegedly head-butted an NYPD Lieutenant while on Hyatt Street in St. George, and the officer was transported to Richmond University Medical Center in West Brighton with minor injuries.
Another detective sustained a minor injury in an effort to restrain Walker, the NYPD spokesman said.
Walker was taken to Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan following the incident, according to an NYPD spokesman.
It appeared to happen while he was riding in a black, unmarked police vehicle.
A man on a stretcher is loaded into an ambulance after police respond to an incident outside the Staten Island Courthouse in St. George on Monday, June 24, 2019. (Staten Island Advance/Alexandra Salmieri)
A man on a stretcher is loaded into an ambulance after police respond to an incident outside the Staten Island Courthouse in St. George on Monday, June 24, 2019. (Staten Island Advance/Alexandra Salmieri)
A large number of police and court officers responded to Hyatt Street outside the courthouse for a report of an “emotionally-disturbed person,” according to emergency radio transmissions.
His arraignment appears to be off until Tuesday.
The NYPD filed charges of murder, manslaughter, arson and weapon possession on Sunday. It is unclear if Walker will face additional charges for the most recent incident.
Walker’s sons, Ivan, 2, and Elia, 3, and their mother, Alla Ausheva, 37, were found dead on a bed inside the family’s Palisades Street home Saturday morning.
Sources told the Advance the children are believed to have been drowned, while Ausheva suffered head trauma. The medical examiner will rule on their exact causes of death.
Walker was taken into custody in Brooklyn after he was found wandering the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.
Ausheva served as a logistics planner at Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn as a member of the U.S. Air National Guard. She was a former Russian immigrant, who, in 2012 was sworn in as a United States citizen by then-President Barack Obama at a Military Naturalization Ceremony at the White House. And she was a singer, who, within two years immigrating to the U.S., had perfected her English and found time to pursue a dream of performing on a New York City stage.
Walker also was an active member of the U.S. Air National Guard at the time of the murders. Police said officers had responded to a “domestic incident” at the residence in the past.
More than a dozen fellow service members — including Walker’s superior officer– were present in court Monday awaiting the arraignment. They all declined to comment outside the courthouse.
A spokesman for the New York National Guard issued a written statement Monday, which read in part: “No words can express our sadness on hearing this horrific news.”
da yute ya used to work a madden funeral home a jamaica. used to go take up gruesome murder victims and bare things. dem job deh fuck up yuh medz. nah be nuh mortician inna nuh lifetime
SO sad. May their souls rest in peace.
They are going to bury him UNDER the jail for that white woman.
It matters not the colour of the woman. What is important is the wicked act of killing his children and their mother. There should be no sympathy for this bastard. The death penalty is what he deserved, period.
He gonna spend the rest of his life in a straight jacket. Him pass mad.
Mental health is a serious illness!!! Seems like this guy has been battling with mental health issues for a long time. No normal individual in their right mind would comment such act toward their own children. It’s a sad situation
The guy I know, love his children.. So I’m in shock that he killed his children. Mental health need to pay more attention to. It is real.