UAMS Staffer Shot Dead
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
An act of violence claims the life of another UAMS staffer.
Police say Bonny Wallace was killed shortly after midnight, Saturday in her Arch Street home by Leslie Myers, a former renter. Her husband Paul told police he was awakened by gunshots and tried to get the gun away from Myers. Myers reportedly fired at him, but the gun didn`t go off.
Wallace served as the UAMS` Director of Clinical Research for the Department of Surgery.
Colleagues say she played a big roll in pioneering and developing the hospital`s burn unit, and had received some lifetime achievement awards for her work.
"She seemed to always know a little bit about everyone, personally, folks who`d deliver packages for her, folks who`d clean up around here, the nurses, other researchers," said colleague and friend, Dr. Tom Ferrer.
Leslie Myers was arrested at her home and reportedly told police she shot Wallace in a dispute over money. She was charged with capital murder and attempted capital murder.
Police say she also tried to smother Wallace`s husband, Paul, with a pillow before running away.
She is being held in the Pulaski County Jail.
