US lawyer in Micronesia shot to death while walking her dog
- Rachelle Bergeron, who moved to the Pacific nation in 2015 to be an attorney general, was about to celebrate her first-year anniversary with her husband
- The shooting has shocked residents of the Micronesian state of Yap, which is home to 11,000 people
Rachelle Bergeron, acting attorney general in the Micronesian state of Yap, died after being shot three times while walking her dog on Monday night, officials and locals said.
Bergeron’s husband was inside the couple’s house on Monday night baking brownies with a local child the couple was helping care for, when someone fired three shots at Bergeron as she pulled up and opened the back of her Subaru hatchback, said Amos Collins, one of Bergeron’s friends. The dog was also killed in the shooting.
Collins said Bergeron’s husband, Simon Hammerling, called him a few minutes after the shooting at 7.15pm and he arrived about the same time as the police.
Bergeron had been shot in her upper leg and her upper chest and was unconscious, Collins said. He and a nurse used a blanket to move her onto his low loader and they drove to the local hospital.