Ex-Biden staffer Nation Wooden stated he by chance shot girlfriend in bathe, charged with demise

An ex-safety staffer for President Joe Biden charged with killing his girlfriend in San Francisco advised police it was a horrific accident.

Nation Wooden, 25, was arrested Wednesday 24 hours after he allegedly shot and killed Samantha Emge, 22, a 2025 graduate of San Francisco State College, on the dwelling they shared in town’s Sundown District.

Wooden says on his LinkedIn profile that he was as a part-time safety staffer who labored with Biden’s White Home Secret Service workforce beginning in 2023.

A photograph on his profile reveals him smiling with former VP Kamala Harris in entrance of a presidential jet.

The previous White Home safety staffer advised police he by chance shot Emge by the wall of their residence whereas she was showering, in accordance with The San Francisco Customary.

Wooden was “dry-firing” his weapon and didn’t understand it was loaded when a bullet pierced the wall and killed Emge whereas she was showering, The Customary experiences.

Dry firing is the act of pulling the set off on an unloaded firearm to observe capturing with out reside rounds.

Wooden was charged with involuntary manslaughter for killing Emge. That cost is introduced when prosecutors imagine a killing was unintentional.

Charging paperwork filed by the San Francisco district legal professional say Wooden killed Emge “with out malice.” He faces as much as 4 years in state jail if convicted.

Wooden shot and killed Emge at their residence close to San Francisco’s Ocean Seashore on Tuesday, in accordance with police.

Officers arrived on the dwelling at 10:43 p.m. and found Wooden’s alleged sufferer affected by a gunshot wound, cops stated. Emge was taken to a hospital the place she died.

Wooden was booked at San Francisco County Jail and arraigned Friday, in accordance with information stored by the San Francisco Sheriff.

He was being held on $300,000 bail and was required to put on an digital monitoring machine upon launch.

He’s been launched from custody and has his subsequent listening to on Wednesday, in accordance with court docket information. Wooden’s LinkedIn web page identifies him as an “impartial pre-event website safety advisor.”  

He labored on the White Home by July 2025, ending out his time period beneath President Donald Trump, in accordance with LinkedIn.

The alleged killer was a political science and authorities main at SFSU, graduating in Might 2024, in accordance with LinkedIn.

He posed with Harris and her husband, former Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, in entrance of a presidential jet in 2024, in a publish shared to his profile.

Wooden smiles within the picture with the VP, Emhoff and others on a tarmac in entrance a jet engine painted with the telltale blue of U.S. presidential planes.

“Very grateful to have had the chance to assist the VP together with her journey to APEC in San Francisco,” the publish says.

The caption is an obvious reference to the Asia-Pacific Financial Cooperation, a world summit of world powers held in San Francisco and that attended by Harris.

Emge labored in inside design, in accordance with her LinkedIn profile. Certainly one of Emge’s associates stated Wooden was the sufferer’s boyfriend, in accordance with The Customary.

The lifeless girl’s Instagram account reveals the 2 collectively, with one publish displaying them smiling and sporting baseball caps.

“Travelled, ate, constructed a desk, and have become an actual grownup in 2025,” Emge captioned the publish. The couple visited Yosemite in June, in accordance with her Instagram.

Emge’s associates lamented her demise on her profile. Some posters lashed out at Wooden. “He didn’t deserve you,” wrote one commenter.

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