Christine A. Jones, a 61-year-old housekeeping supervisor from Cottage Grove, Wisconsin, was shot and killed in a downtown Madison parking ramp last week after being targeted by a former coworker for supporting President Donald Trump.
The suspect is her former coworker, 31-year-old Diamond Simone Wallace, who had previously accused Jones of racism because of her support for the president.
Police responded to the 300 block of West Washington Avenue around 8 a.m. on March 22 after reports of a person down in the parking ramp.
Jones was pronounced dead at the scene.
She had parked in the ramp before heading to her shift at a nearby hotel.
According to the criminal complaint, Wallace worked with Jones at the same downtown Madison hotel until he was fired in April of last year.
After the firing, Wallace returned to the hotel, made threats, and caused disturbances. The hotel’s general manager obtained a temporary restraining order against him.
The complaint states Wallace blamed Jones for the termination, slashed the tires on her Chevrolet Silverado, and had previously accused her of being racist just because she supported Trump.
Wallace “expressed animosity towards CAJ [Christine A. Jones] for being a Trump supporter,” the filing reads, according to a report from The Center Square.
The killer was arrested on March 23, the day after the shooting.
Police recovered a handgun and a blue hooded sweatshirt that matched surveillance video from the scene. Ballistics linked the gun to the murder.
Wallace has a prior felony conviction from 2019 for resisting an officer, which prohibited him from possessing a firearm.
The leftist killer appeared in Dane County Court on Wednesday.
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