An elderly man fatally shot his 93-year-old wife in the head before turning the gun on himself in an apparent murder-suicide inside a senior group home in Arizona, police said.
Jerome Woolums, 92, was found with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head — and still clutching the gun — after allegedly shooting his longtime spouse, Katharine, in their bedroom at a Mesa assisted living facility around 4 a.m. Thursday, according to the Mesa Police Department, Fox10 Phoenix reported.
Police said the husband-turned-gunman was pronounced dead at the scene. 3
Katharine still had a pulse amid the carnage and was rushed to a local hospital, where she later died. 3
“We are looking at this as a murder-suicide,” a police spokesperson told The Arizona Republic.
“At this stage of the in