According to police an 81-year-old man shot and killed his 82-year-old wife, and then killed himself, at a nursing home. The police chief says the murder-suicide happened last Tuesday at the Samaritan Health Center.
The woman was a patient at the nursing home and her husband was visiting. The bodies were discovered by a care worker shortly after noon. No one else was injured or threatened. For more, read the story.
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