2 Former Greenwood Residents Killed In Violent Incidents

GREENWOOD, Ind. -- Two former Greenwood residents are dead after a violent weekend in northern California.

Police said the violence began in Marysville, Calif., on the night of July 4 when Ian Sloan York, 21, a U.S. airman, shot his girlfriend, Kelly Roome, 19, in an apartment complex after a domestic dispute.

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Police said York also shot a 21-year-old man. Roome was pronounced dead at a hospital. The other shooting victim, also an airman, was taken to a hospital, where he was treated and released, KXTV-TV reported.

"I heard a loud bang. I thought it was a firework," apartment manager Wes Porter told KXTV. "Next thing I knew, people were screaming, running out the door."

Roome had just graduated from Greenwood High School and had recently moved to California, where York had been stationed at Beale Air Force Base since 2007. The couple had been dating for several years.

"We get a call from California while we're camping that our daughter had been shot and killed," Roome's father, Dan Roome, told 6News' Ben Morriston. "She was engaged. She planned on marrying this man. She went out there to spend time with him."

Investigators said they used York's cell phone activity to track him to Santa Clara, Calif., where police said he fired a shot at an officer before running into a wooded area with a creek. Police said York was subsequently killed in a shootout with police.

Witnesses told the Marysville Appeal-Democrat that York had become angry after seeing Roome put her arm around another man earlier in the day.

Roome's family said that she had recently decided to return to Indiana and was planning to leave this week.

Roome was homecoming queen last year at Greenwood High School. The school community was shocked and saddened when they heard about what happened to two recent graduates.

"I was good friends with her. I knew her since … about sixth grade. I miss her a lot," said Greenwood student Michael Palermo. "Ian … my sister's known him since kindergarten. He was like a brother growing up with me. I never knew him like how he was now."

Funeral arrangements for Roome are still pending. Her father said the family is still in shock.

"He's supposed to protect and serve our country, but instead, he kills my daughter, an innocent victim," he said. "You don't ever expect to bury you own child. Your children are supposed to bury you."