After William Woolf drank 19 to 25 rum and colas at an American Legion club in Wilson, Pennsylvania, he drove to a factory where his wife and her boyfriend were at work. According to police reports, Woolf shot his way through the locked door, shot at the boyfriend and rammed his car into a police car while making his escape. A police officer was the only one hurt. Woolf and his wife, Robin, were separated at the time.

Woolf has filed suit against the American Legion club that served him the drinks, claiming that his "emotional state of being [was] taken advantage of" by a female bartender who "kept insisting that [Woolf] have more drinks." He claims in the suit that he tried to leave "when he was feeling a little tipsy," but didn't because the bartender said he was okay." Woolf also claims in his suit that "if he would not have been served excessive amounts of alcohol, he would not have become the victim of these circumstances" and would not have found himself charged with attempted homicide.

Woolf and his wife have since reconciled and she seems to have forgiven him for the shooting incident. Robin Woolf is suing her employer, Binney and Smith Inc., holding the company liable for the shooting. She claims that she was subjected to sexual harassment and sexual abuse at work because the company allowed the man she became involved with to "seek out and stalk" her. She claims in her lawsuit that it was impossible for her to know that she was being "stalked as prey" and that the man intended to "play on her weaknesses and extract information from her concerning her personal life and the turmoils... in her marriage which would ultimately lead [her] into having sex with" him. According to the lawsuit, Robin Woolf is suing because Binney and Smith is "absolutely guilty of not protecting [her] from the claws of this jackal" and equally guilty of not knowing that her affair would "ultimately drive William Woolf insane."

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