Shocking news on the radio.
By Gary Marsh
@garymarsh6 (23404)
United Kingdom
December 28, 2015 8:03am CST
Apparently in a nursing home in a county not far from me an elderly lady of 80 years old has been shot this morning. A man has been arrested but there are no further details being release by the police at the moment.
It sounds absolutely horrific for something to happen like this. I am hazarding a guess that it is someone who knows the deceased person. It is a rather drastic way to murder someone like that. Thank goodness that no one else was hurt during this.
** UPDATE.**
It appears to be that he was her husband. He had an army issue revolver from 1934 which was used to shoot her. She had Alzheimer's disease and could not bear to see her suffering. It looks like it was a mercy killing. He had moved in to spend Christmas with her. He has now been charged with her murder and is due to appear in court before Magistrates tomorrow.( Wednesday)
I have never heard of something like that happening in the UK before. It must have been horrific for the staff on duty and the other patients in the home. The police are currently interviewing the staff and the man has been taken away.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
28 Dec 15
I hope that everyone else is safe. I imagine something so sudden and shocking would affect a lot of the elderly there. Was it a closed incident? By that I mean were they the only two in the room at the time?
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@Marcyaz (35316)
• United States
28 Dec 15
@garymarsh6
Both residents I wonder if they had an altercation. Glad to hear the front doors were security locked as I would hate to think someone could just walk in and start shooting.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
28 Dec 15
@garymarsh6 Well atleast there is that. Though it won't be much comfort to the family of the deceased.
@garymarsh6 (23404)
• United Kingdom
28 Dec 15
The front doors are security locked so it must have been someone who was already in the building rather than someone just coming in off the street. It looks at the moment that the two people involved were both residents.
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@jaboUK (64354)
• United Kingdom
28 Dec 15
@garymarsh6 I've just seen it on the news - it seems like he was a resident of the home too.
@garymarsh6 (23404)
• United Kingdom
28 Dec 15
We certainly don't although I have seen worse in A&E Janet.
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@Marcyaz (35316)
• United States
29 Dec 15
@garymarsh6
A resident and a relative wonder how this will turn out.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
28 Dec 15
That was going to be my question. Wonders if it was a lovers spat gone wrong?
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
28 Dec 15
@garymarsh6 Valid point. Heirloom or otherwise, how was it snuck in without anyone ever finding it?
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@garymarsh6 (23404)
• United Kingdom
29 Dec 15
Some news is quite terrible isn't it.
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@garymarsh6 (23404)
• United Kingdom
29 Dec 15
@hiru84 Some people are just wicked.
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@hiru84 (942)
• Malaysia
29 Dec 15
@garymarsh6
Why not? There are many quite terrible news in this world.
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
28 Dec 15
@garymarsh6 More people campaign for the rights of prisoners than do for pensioners or ex servicemen. People love to stand up for the worst of society in order to demonstrate how caring they are.
@garymarsh6 (23404)
• United Kingdom
28 Dec 15
Not when I also see today a prisoner in Manchester with a 55 in television and Iphone6 and enough food in his cell to start his own supermarket. What is going on with our prisons.
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@garymarsh6 (23404)
• United Kingdom
28 Dec 15
He may have been her brother Vandana.
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@garymarsh6 (23404)
• United Kingdom
29 Dec 15
Well apparently he was related to her and also a resident of the home. Perhaps he was just showing her it and it went off. We have not heard yet.
@garymarsh6 (23404)
• United Kingdom
29 Dec 15
It was her husband. He could not bear to see her with dementia.
@PainsOnSlate (21852)
• Canada
28 Dec 15
That is so unheard of, I can see why everyone is so upset. Who would do that - it must have been an angry relative. Still not the way anyone wants to go..
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@garymarsh6 (23404)
• United Kingdom
28 Dec 15
They have just said he was a relative but he was also a resident of the home perhaps brother/ cousin,
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@ElizabethWallace (12074)
• United States
28 Dec 15
If she was ill, it might have been a mercy killing. That happens from time to time.
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@garymarsh6 (23404)
• United Kingdom
28 Dec 15
Could have been. Apparently he was a relative.
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@ElizabethWallace (12074)
• United States
29 Dec 15
@garymarsh6 This has happened here in the US several times.
@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
28 Dec 15
I wonder if the man was a family member as I just can't figure out what an 80 year old woman could have done to him to make him do such a thing.
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@vathsala30 (3732)
• India
29 Dec 15
It is really shocking to note this incident. I do not understand what made that man to shoot this poor old and feeble lady . What harm can she do in this age. ? But anyway since we do not know the actual reason, let us wait and see what the person says in the police custody at the time of interrogation
@changjiangzhibin89 (16784)
• China
29 Dec 15
It comes as a shock to me ! Nothing can excuse killing an elderly lady of 80 years old like that.Sadly there are always some people who risk danger in desperation .
@BelleStarr (61102)
• United States
29 Dec 15
I looked it up on the news and it seems he was related to the victim, one wonders if it is brother, husband or cousin.
@GreatMartin (23672)
• Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
29 Dec 15
Sadly news like this would be buried in the papers when it happens here as it happens a lot! Just teh other day a 72 year old woman was raped by a 26 year old man!!
