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Murder-suicide at Florida hospital

Healthcare Security Weekly, June 11, 2007

An elderly man killed his wife June 4 while visiting her at the Cleveland Clinic Florida in Weston in what police called a murder-suicide, reported the Miami Herald.

 

The 87-year-old patient was in a private, fourth-floor room at the hospital when her 86-year-old husband shot her with his handgun, the newspaper reported. He then turned the gun on himself, committing suicide.

 

Hospital staffers heard the gun blasts and called security. The patient was not terminally ill, Broward County Sheriff's Office investigators told the newspaper. But police said the woman suffered chronic health problems and spent three days in the hospital's intensive care unit before moving to a private room, reported the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.

 

A clinic spokeswoman told the Sun-Sentinel visitors must check in at the front desk and are given passes after showing identification. She said weapons are banned in the hospital, except for law enforcement and security officers.

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