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A 76-year-old Florida woman is in jail charged with the shooting death of her terminally ill husband.
The Daytona Police Department confirmed that officers were dispatched Saturday morning after they received a report of a shooting at the AdventHealth Hospital in Daytona Beach.
“Units arrived on scene to find that a female hadshot her terminally ill husbandand had confined herself to his room,” said a police release.
Officers evacuated surrounding rooms with patients and staff while they negotiated with Ellen Gilland, who later allegedly told police that she and her husband, 77-year-old Jerry Gilland, had made amurder-suicide pactthree weeks earlier, reported NBC News.
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“It’s called a flash bang that the SWAT team uses,” Young added, reported WESH. “They use it. It just makes a loud noise it’s like a — pretty sure you’re familiar with that. So they flew in a flash bang to distract her and luckily it worked.”
No patients or staff were injured in the incident, police said.
Young later told reporters at a news conference that authorities believe the woman was planning to kill herself.
“Initially, I think the plan was a murder-suicide,” Young said, reported NBC. “She killed him and then she was going to turn the gun on herself but decided she couldn’t go through with it.”
On Sunday, Gilland made her first appearance in a Volusia County court and faces afirst-degree murdercharge alongside three counts of aggravated assault, reported CBS News.
source: people.com
