Police Psychologist Sentenced in Husband Shooting

An NYPD psychologist who shot her husband while he was asleep was sentenced Thursday to three years in state prison for attempted assault. She was planning to start a new life with her lover. Her husband survived the shooting and the surgery to remove a bullet from his jaw.

Emily Dearden of 82 Pondfield Road West, Yonkers, New York, had originally been charged with second-degree attempted murder and had pleaded guilty to the lesser charge.

At 4 a.m. Nov.14, 2013, Kenneth Dearden woke up with a pain on the left side of his head, Westchester County District Attorney Anthony A. Scarpino, Jr. said. Police and EMS were called. Hospital staff determined that he had been shot in the head.

His wife Emily Dearden had told police she had been knocked out by an intruder.

Kenneth Dearden was transferred to a trauma center (he spent eight days at Westchester Medical Center where he underwent surgery to remove a .22 caliber bullet from his jaw).

A year later, Yonkers police arrested his wife. Her husband also sued her.

She was alleged to have had an affair with a Texas man, Warren David Roudebush, with whom she planned to start a new life. Kenneth Dearden, a real estate developer, said in the lawsuit that she “had been having an on-and-off extramarital affair since at least early 2011.”

At the time she fired, using an antique derringer according to the New York Post, the couple’s children were sleeping only a few feet away, prosecutors said.

Dearden, 49, had faced a maximum sentence of 15 years in state prison.