Doctor shoots ex-girlfriend, flees but found dead later

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The body of Dr. Timothy V. Jorden Jr., the man suspected in the shooting death of a West Seneca woman, was found this morning in an Eighteen Mile Creek ravine near his home, dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Dennis Richards, chief of detectives for the Buffalo Police Department, confirmed that information at a news conference just before 1 p.m.

The body, in surgical scrubs, was found by a pair of parole officers who were assisting police in the search for Jorden, Richards said.

The discovery came only a day after police had said a manhunt was under way for Jorden. But neighbors on the Lakeview street where he lived said they were told this morning by police.

The doctor, who has treated and saved gunshot victims, is suspected of fatally shooting Jackie Wisniewski his ex-girlfriend and a single mother from West Seneca, at point-blank range in a stairwell at ECMC Wednesday and then disappearing.

Police believe that Jorden, a former Army Special Forces soldier, killed Wisniewski with military precision and then took off as part of a carefully planned getaway.

Police said the body was found off a footpath along Eighteen Mile Creek near Jorden's home.

Wisniewski, a well-respected secretary in the center's adolescent psychiatric unit, had confided to friends that Jorden had been abusive and that she was afraid for her life.