According to police, Gilland told officers that her husband had been ill for some time and they had planned the shooting together.
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However, the Taser gun failed to subdue 76-year-old Ellen Gilland, and she fired a shot into the ceiling of her husband’s room inside AdventHealth Hospital before dropping the handgun and being taken into custody after a four-hour standoff, according to a police report from the Daytona Beach Police Department.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Ottawa SUN, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.
Ellen Gilland now faces charges of premeditated first-degree murder and two counts of aggressive assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, stemming from when she pointed her gun at staff members who had entered the hospital room after hearing a gunshot, according to the police report. She remained in jail on no bond on Monday, and her court-appointed public defender didn’t respond to an email inquiry.
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