2 Deaths at Hospital a Possible Murder-Suicide
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Police are investigating the shooting deaths of an elderly couple at a hospital as a probable murder-suicide.
Officers responding Thursday morning to gunshots at the Scripps Green Hospital in La Jolla found an 86-year-old man dead of a self-inflicted gunshot and his 95-year-old wife mortally wounded in her bed. She died moments later.
The couple was identified as Gordon and Winsome Houghton of Spring Valley. The wife had been hospitalized with an undisclosed illness.
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