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DATE: THURSDAY, June 17, 1993                   TAG: 9306170304
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: FORT GEORGE MEADE, MD.                                LENGTH: Short

ARMY SERGEANT SHOT; WIFE CHARGED

Deborah Ann Callahan, 35, of Woodbridge, Va., has been charged with assault with intent to murder in the Tuesday morning shooting of her husband outside the barracks at Fort George G. Meade.

Her first words to military police after her arrest Tuesday were that her husband had tested positive for HIV, according to federal court records.

Sgt. Timothy Callahan, 36, also of Woodbridge, was shot once in each shoulder and twice in the abdomen with a .38-caliber handgun. He was in critical and stable condition Wednesday at the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore.

Deborah Callahan was released Wednesday to the custody of her mother, who put up her house as bond. Callahan also will wear an electronic home-monitoring device.

A witness told authorities Callahan bent down after the shooting and placed something next to her husband before driving away. Paramedics found a gun in Callahan's hand when they arrived.

The car the witness described was stopped two minutes later by military police. Callahan had blood on her clothes and body, and police found nine .38-caliber cartridges and an empty holster in her car, according to charging documents.

Keywords:
FATALITY