The woman who shot her husband to death this Saturday at the hospital in Daytona Beach (Florida) where he was hospitalized in a terminal condition, he told the police that he had asked him to do it and that the plan included that she take her own life later, local media reported this Sunday. Police identified the woman as Ellen Gilland, 76, and her husband as Jerry Gilland, 77.
“Since he was in a terminal condition, they had a conversation and planned what to do about three weeks ago,” Daytona Beach Police Chief Jakari Young said, according to television channels in that city located on the east coast of Florida.
ellen gilland was arrested as soon as she left the AdvebtHealth hospital room where her husband was, in which he barricaded himself after having shot him and from which He didn’t come out until about three hours later., according to the police. Young said that she was arrested for homicide, but it will be her Prosecutor’s Office that will file the charges against her.
According to a police statement released on Saturday, agents specializing in negotiation were sent to the hospital when the death of Jerry Gilland was learned to convince the armed woman that she leave the room and surrender.
Police asked people not to go near the scene and the area of AdventHealth Hospital where the events occurred was evacuated to protect staff and patients.
According to Young, in this terminally ill area, located on the 11th floor of the hospital, most of the patients are connected to respirators, so evacuation was very difficult. According to Channel 9 in Daytona Beach, it is still unknown how Ellen Gilland managed to circumvent hospital controls and smuggle a gun into the medical center.
Source: Lasexta
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