{"id":562464,"date":"2023-01-23T16:26:33","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T16:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=562464"},"modified":"2023-01-23T16:57:28","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T16:57:28","slug":"elderly-woman-killed-terminally-ill-husband-as-part-of-botched-suicide-pact-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/elderly-woman-killed-terminally-ill-husband-as-part-of-botched-suicide-pact-cops","title":{"rendered":"Elderly woman killed terminally ill husband as part of botched suicide pact: cops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fatal shooting of a terminally ill man in Florida was part of a failed murder-suicide pact with his wife, authorities have revealed. Ellen Gilland, 76, is accused of gunning down her bedridden husband Jerry Gilland at AdventHealth Hospital in Daytona Beach around 11:30 a.m. Saturday &#8212; before she was arrested. According to investigators, the Gillands had made a pact to carry out a murder-suicide if Jerry&#8217;s health continued deteriorating. &#8220;The goal was for him to do it, but he did not have the strength, so she had to carry it out for him,&#8221; Daytona Beach Police Chief Jakari Young said Sunday, as reported by ClickOrlando. Ellen Gilland, 76, is pictured in her booking photo after being arrested on charges of first-degree murder and assault with a deadly weapon for the killing of her husband. Daytona Beach Police Department Ellen Gilland is accused of fatal shooting 77-year-old Jerry Gilland inside his room at AdventHealth Hospital in Daytona Beach, Fla., Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fatal shooting of a terminally ill man in Florida was part of a failed murder-suicide pact with his wife, authorities have revealed. Ellen Gilland, 76, is accused of gunning<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-562464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-public-safety"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}