TORONTO — A doctor accused of gunning down her medical school professor and lover 16 years ago agreed Wednesday to return to the United States to face murder charges.
Jacquelyn Robinson, a 41-year-old native of the Bahamas, had been studying at the University of Ottawa and working at a children's hospital there.
She was caught last month by immigration officials at Toronto's Pearson International Airport as she prepared to board a flight to the Bahamas.
Robinson was a medical student when she allegedly shot and killed her Howard University professor and lover in 1985.
On Wednesday, Robinson signed court papers allowing for her return to Maryland — where the shooting happened. Prosecutor Brad Reitz, acting on behalf of U.S. authorities, said Robinson would be taken back to the United States soon, but he could not provide a specific date.
Robinson has been wanted in Maryland on a second-degree murder charge for the killing of Henry Lloyd Garvey.
She and Garvey, an associate professor of pharmacology, were having an affair when Garvey was shot at her apartment in 1984. Garvey fell into a coma and died in 1985.
Before Garvey's death, Robinson was arrested and convicted of assault, but was released on a $500,000 bond while appealing the conviction and five-year sentence. When Garvey died five months later, a Maryland grand jury indicted her on a second-degree murder charge.
Robinson then fled, and police say she eluded arrest by moving between countries including England, Holland, the Bahamas and Canada.