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Cops: 102-Year-Old Man Shoots Wife, Kills Self

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File photo of police crime scene tape. (credit: Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)

File photo of police crime scene tape. (credit: Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Police in Greensboro say a 102-year-old man shot and wounded his 84-year-old wife before killing himself.

Authorities said in a statement that officers responded to a report of shots being fired at a home on the northeast side of the city around 7:30 a.m. Wednesday. When they arrived, they found Theodore Delano Larkin Jr. dead at the scene of a self-inflicted gunshot. Police said Gloria Laurette Larkin was suffering from gunshot wounds, and was taken by ambulance to Moses Cone Hospital where her condition is described as non-life threatening.

Investigators have not determined a motive for the shooting and are continuing to look into the incident.

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  • senator_kang

    Well, old people are just people. Some are sane, some are not. And then there is the third option: maybe he had a reason to wound her, even at that age. Who’s to say she didn’t cheat on him? Some people are more full of life than others.

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