CLEVELAND — Cleveland police confirm that Uloma Walker-Curry, 44, was taken into custody Tuesday and has been charged in Cleveland Municipal Court with aggravated murder in the death of her husband Cleveland Firefighter William Walker in November 2013.
According to Cleveland Municipal Court, she is being charged for paying several people to murder her husband.
Walker, 45, was ambushed outside his East Side home Nov. 3, 2013. He was shot several times in the chest before the gunman left in a car.
He was rushed to MetroHealth Medical Center where he later died..
Walker spent 15 years with the division and was just promoted in August 2013. He also served as a certified CPR instructor.
Cleveland Municipal Court spokesman Ed Ferenc says she will likely be arraigned on Thursday.
She is the second person to be charged with the murder.
The first was Chad Padgett, now 21, who was arrested earlier this summer and also charged with aggravated murder, according to court records. He was 19 when he is alleged to have killed Walker.
Padgett is being held on $1,000,000 bond. Cleveland Police said at the time that it was Padgett who ambushed Walker outside of his home