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Police: 78-Year-Old Man Kills 21-Year-Old Wife

Local10.com 09/19/2011 15:15
Police: 78-Year-Old Man Kills 21-Year-Old Wife - USA - crime - Florida - murder


Police in Port St. Lucie are investigating a bizarre apparent murder-suicide. Police believe a 78-year-old man shot and killed his 21-year-old wife early Saturday, then set their home on fire before killing himself.



It happened at about 1:15 a.m. in a quiet neighborhood on Southwest Kamchatka Avenue.

"A white male called 911 and said he had just killed his wife and was going to kill himself," police spokesman Tom Nichols said. "Before he turned the gun on himself, he set the house on fire."

Nichols said police arrived to find the front door of the house open, with the man's body behind the door and the woman's body in a bedroom. Police said the woman had been shot in the head.

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