Los Angeles Times: WTC Cameraman Jailed in Wife's Death

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WTC Cameraman Jailed in Wife's Death
By Associated Press

January 2 2002, 8:14 AM PST

DENVER -- A cameraman who filmed the World Trade Center site for the Federal
Emergency Management Agency has been jailed in the shooting death of his wife.

Kurt Sonnenfeld, 39, was arrested Tuesday for investigation of first-degree
murder in the death of his wife, Nancy, 36, police spokeswoman Virginia Lopez
said.

She was shot in the chest around 1:40 a.m. Tuesday at their home in east Denver
and died later that morning at Denver Health Medical Center, Lopez said.

Sonnenfeld was activated as a contract cameraman employee for FEMA, and his
video footage of the World Trade Center wreckage was broadcast around the world,
FEMA spokeswoman Laura Shane said from Washington. The FEMA regional branch that
includes Colorado also sent two teams of urban search and rescue workers to the
site.

Sonnenfeld told police his wife shot herself because she was angry with him,
Lopez said. He was arrested at the hospital but police did not say what led them
to believe he was a suspect in her death.

Sonnenfeld spent three weeks in New York last fall along with other FEMA
workers, photographing and videotaping ground zero. That videotape was fed to
television networks and it was broadcast worldwide.

FEMA workers were stunned by news of his arrest.

"Kurt was definitely in love with his wife, very much so," said Michael Rieger,
a disaster-assistance employee who also traveled to New York.

"I worked with him at the World Trade Center. He was great to work with. What an
easygoing guy," said Pete Bakersky, another FEMA worker.

Nancy Sonnenfeld worked at an advertising firm and volunteered at the Maxfund
Animal Shelter, friends said.

Copyright 2001 Associated Press