A 76-year-old woman allegedly shot and killed her terminally ill husband at a Daytona Beach, Florida, hospital following a pact police said the couple made several weeks ago.
Officers were called to AdventHealth Daytona Beach on Saturday for a report of a person shot, the police department said in a news release.
When police arrived, Ellen Gilland was barricaded in her husband, Jerry Gilland’s, 11th-floor room. Law enforcement used a device to distract the woman “to get her to put that gun down long enough for us to hit her with less lethal,” Daytona Police Chief Jakari Young said at a news conference. She was taken into custody and faces a charge of first-degree murder.
The woman told authorities that because of her husband’s health issues, they had a conversation about three weeks ago and decided that if he “continued to take a turn for the worse that he wanted her to end this,” Young said.
“Initially, I think the plan was a murder-suicide so she killed him and then she was going…
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