Hubby mistakes wife for intruder, shoots her dead

By Glazyl Y. Masculino

 

BACOLOD City – An elderly man shot his wife dead after he mistook her for an intruder at Barangay Orong, Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental Friday last week.

Police withheld the names of the 76-year-old victim and the 80-year-old suspect.

Investigation showed that the suspect was awakened by the barking of dogs, prompting him to tap his wife whom he thought was sleeping beside him.

However, his wife was not on their bed.

The husband later noticed someone inside the house but he failed to identify the person since it was dark. He then allegedly shot the person.

When the husband turned on the lights, he saw his wife with a gunshot wound in the head.

The victim was pronounced dead at the hospital.

Police said the suspect threw the still unidentified firearm in a sugarcane plantation and fled.

The family is not pursuing charges against the suspect, according to the police.