Police: Wife shot, killed terminally ill husband at AdventHealth Daytona Beach

Woman shoots dead terminally-ill husband in 'failed hospital murder-suicide'

Ellen Gilland, 76, from Florida, US, and her terminally-ill husband Jerry Gilland, 77, made a suicide-pact and planned to kill each other at Daytona Beach hospital in Florida

Women Fatally Shoots Terminally Ill Husband Inside Hospital

The couple has apparently planned a murder-suicide, but the women was eventually taken into custody after shooting her husband, then barricading herself in the Florida hospital room.

US: 76-year-old woman shoots terminally ill husband dead in Florida hospital under ‘pact’

A 76-year-old lady reportedly shot and murdered her terminally sick husband at a hospital in Daytona Beach, Florida, after the couple formed a pact many weeks earlier, according to police. Officers were dispatched to AdventHealth Daytona Beach on Saturday for a report of a person being shot, according to local news outlets.

Elderly woman shoots her dying husband in hospital in a bid to end his life, police say

A woman fatally shot her husband, terminally, then barricaded with him in the hospital room

The tragedy occurred at a hospital in Florida. The medical staff heard the shot, but could not intervene. The 76-year-old barricaded herself in the hospital room with her 77-year-old husband and refused for hours to go out. She then said that her gesture was a pact made with her suffering husband and should have taken her life the same way, but “she had no strength to go all the way,” police said, according to The New York Times.

A woman fatally shot her terminally ill husband at a Florida hospital after the couple agreed for her to kill him and then herself, but she 'couldn't go through with' suicide, police say

Daytona Beach police said the couple planned for the wife to kill her husband and end his suffering but that she "couldn't go through with" suicide.