CAROLYN THOMPSON
Associated Press

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - Police say a Buffalo, N.Y., doctor who killed his girlfriend at a hospital and was found dead days later had planned the killing.

Police had been searching for 49-year-old Dr. Timothy Jorden since Wednesday morning, when 33-year-old Jacqueline Wisniewski was found shot to death in a stairwell at the Erie County Medical Center.

Jorden was a former special forces soldier. His body was found Friday not far from his suburban home near Lake Erie.

A Buffalo Police Department spokesman says Jorden apparently died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

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