He shot Officer Edwin Chittick in the hand after accusing him "of seeing his wife," said Suffolk County Police Det. Lt. Jack Fitzpatrick.
"It's our understanding that that is not the case. They're just acquaintances," Fitzpatrick said.
Chestean Howard said he called 911 after hearing several gunshots in the neighborhood, then looked out his window. "He wasn't moving," Howard told Newsday Saturday. "I thought, `That's it. He's dead,"' Howard said.
Ramsay fired at least three times at the Mercedes-Benz as his wife, Dady Belfort, drove away with a wounded Chittick, Fitzpatrick said.
He then put the gun to his head and pulled the trigger in front of several construction workers doing work on his home, Fitzpatrick said.
Outside the home about 40 miles east of New York City, a body covered by a yellow tarp lay in the driveway for hours Saturday morning under a steady rain before it was removed on a gurney.
A Mercedes-Benz registered to the address of the West Babylon home - its driver and passenger seats smeared with blood - was on the grounds of a Long Island hospital for several hours Saturday. Ramsay had been ill with heart problems and was awaiting a heart transplant, Fitzpatrick said.
A 2007 article about Belfort in the Congressional Record said she has been an officer since 1989 and was promoted to detective in 2005. Belfort was pursuing a master's degree in criminal justice at the time and has three children with Ramsay, according to the profile.
New York City police wouldn't comment on the shootings or give information about the officers, referring all questions to Long Island authorities.
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