STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Prosecutors say that a former teacher was suffering from job and family stress at the time she fatally shot her boyfriend, Patrick Gilhuley, a retired NYPD officer from Staten Island, according to NJ.com.

Gilhuley, 51, was reportedly trying to end his relationship with Virginia Vertetis, 52, when she allegedly shot him in her Mount Olive, N.J., home on March 3, 2014.

Vertetis was on a leave of absence from her job as a teacher at Marie V. Duffy Elementary School in Wharton, N.J., and was "scheduled to return" to work on the day of the shooting, but wasn't permitted to do so, NJ.com reported.

In addition, a few days earlier, a court ordered Vertetis to pay more money in child support to her ex-husband, a Newtown police officer, the report said.