NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- A Staten Island National Guardsman on trial for killing his family was allowed to take his 2- and 3-year-old sons from a Brooklyn military base despite a court order against him seeing his family and orders from his superiors that he not be allowed on the base.
Prosecutors charged Shane Walker, 39, with murdering his girlfriend, National Guard Airman 1st Class Alla Ausheva, and their two sons, Elia and Ivan, before setting fire to their home in June 2019.
Due to a history of domestic abuse, a court order barred Walker from seeing his family and his unit commander ordered he be kept away from Fort Hamilton, where Ausheva and the children were stationed.
His supervisors failed to inform the childcare workers on the base about the ban though, and he was allowed to pick up his sons from daycare, court records obtained by the New York Post show.
The staff there didn’t have the court order on file, and therefore felt they couldn’t legally keep Walker away from the kids.
Two of the day care staff who were fired after the incident, daycare director Michelle Millwood and coordinator Lorraine Brown, are suing the base.
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