Police searching for a trauma surgeon in connection with the shooting death of his ex-girlfriend at a Buffalo hospital were surprised to find an armed, off-duty police officer -- and high-school friend of the wanted man -- coming out of the doctor's home Thursday with $5,000 and a Rolex watch, WGRZ-TV reports.Police sources tell WGRZ that the officer, Martin Motley III, who has been on injured-on-duty status for three years, provided officers with no useful information as to why he was at Dr. Timothy Jorden's home in Lake View.
Officers went to the house looking for Jorden, a former Army special Forces soldier who is considered armed and dangerous, as a "person of interest" in the fatal shooting Wednesday of Jackie Wisniewski, a secretary at Erie County Medical Center.
Jorden, who has since disappeared, withdrew up to $30,000 from his bank account in the days leading up to thel shooting, unidentified authorities tell The Buffalo News.
The newspaper also reports that Jorden, who had been clean shaven and heavyset, recently grew a beard and lost about 75 pounds.
"He's out there somewhere," Buffalo Police Commissioner Daniel Derenda says. "We believe he's still in the United States. To the best of my knowledge, he has not crossed the border."
