According to police, a shooting occurred at AdventHealth Daytona Beach, located on the central Florida coast, on Saturday.
It took place on a floor dedicated to providing care for terminally ill patients, and the aftermath of the shooting is still under investigation.
Two hospital workers entered Room 1106 after hearing a gunshot and saw Ellen Gilland sitting beside the bed with her unresponsive husband in a pool of blood.
She pointed a weapon at them, telling them to leave the room, according to a police report, after which another staffer also entered and was told to leave at gunpoint.
After roughly four hours, SWAT team members deployed a nonlethal explosive device to distract Ellen Gilland and entered the room.
When they attempted to use a stun gun, and after firing a shot into the ceiling, she was subdued, dropped the weapon and was arrested, according to the police report.
Three weeks ago, according to Daytona Beach Police Chief Jakari Young at a news conference, the couple had devised a murder-suicide plan.
He stated that during a conversation, Jerry Gilland and his partner had agreed that if his unnamed illness worsened, she would ‘end this’.
After weeks of planning, 76-year-old Ellen Gilland attempted to carry out a tragic plan to shoot her terminally ill, 77-year-old husband Jerry, then take her own life.
However, after shooting him in the head in an 11th-floor hospital room, she could not follow through with her own death.
