Yonkers woman ID'd as soldier who shot self at Va. base

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AP

RICHMOND, Va. – A Yonkers resident has been identified by the Army as the soldier who barricaded herself in a building at a Virginia base and then fatally shot herself in the head.

Fort Lee officials on Wednesday say it was 33-year-old Sgt. 1st Class Paula M. Walker of Yonkers. She was a human resources specialist.

Walker was pronounced dead after being taken to Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center on Monday. She had barricading herself in an office on the third floor of the four-story building that houses the Army's Combined Arms Support Command and was throwing things around. About 1,100 people were inside, but no one else was hurt. Her gun was not a service weapon, officials said.

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