76-year-old woman killed her seriously ill husband in a hospital room, failed to commit suicide and barricaded herself

A 76-year-old woman who killed her husband in the hospital this Saturday of Daytona Beach, where he was hospitalized in terminal condition, he surrendered to the authorities after being three hours barricaded in the roomsaid the police of that city on the east coast of Florida, in the United States.

The police statement only said that the woman is already in police custody without giving further details, the news agency said. EFE extension.

“The woman is already under custody,” local police reported on social media at 7:00 pm Argentine time. The fact it began at noon and lasted about three hours.

Reporting her husband’s death at AdvenHealth Hospital in Daytona Beach, police said his wife, identified as Eilen Gilland, was armed inside the room and asked people to stay away as they tried to convince her she was dead. .

However, according to the first statement, the woman no longer posed “a threat to staff and patients”.

The area of ​​AdventHealth Hospital where the woman was held has been evacuated. Joshua Horenstein, a cardiologist at Advent Health Hospital, worked in the emergency room, he told the news network Cnn: “Someone came into the emergency room yelling that it was not a drill and to take cover,” then, he added that he finally managed to get out of the closet after hiding there for about 90 minutes.

For his part, As detailed by the Daytona Police, the couple planned this weeks ago.

“Apparently, because he was terminally ill, they talked about it and actually planned it about three weeks ago, which if it kept getting worse, he wanted her to be done with thissaid Daytona Beach Police Chief Jakari Young.

That too came up the man’s original idea was that he put an end to his own life, but “he no longer had the strength to do it”.

“Obviously, we’re not sure how they managed to get that gun into the hospital, but it was planned,” he added.

According to Young, the woman could be tried for murder. Also, she clarified that the use of firearms was not necessary because the woman never threatened to shoot others.

“It’s a difficult situation, her husband was terminally ill, so she was already in a state of depression that her husband was terminally ill and she knew the end was near,” she said.

The woman shot her husband in the head, she intended to commit suicide, but “couldn’t go on,” she concluded.

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