"LAGUNA WOODS, CA – A 90-year-old man survived a gunshot wound to the head, authorities said, after shooting his infirm wife and then turning the gun on himself in an apparent attempt at a murder-suicide."Investigators believe James Fish shot his bedridden wife in the head and then attempted to kill himself Sunday afternoon, but the elderly man was taken to Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo and is expected to survive. If so, authorities with the Orange County Sheriff's Department will likely book Fish on suspicion of murder, said Jim Amormino, spokesman for the department.
"Deputies were called to the 5000 block of Cantante at about 1:30 p.m., Amormino said, when a caretaker at the Fish residence heard a gunshot in the home.
"Authorities found Phyllis Fish, 88, fatally shot in the head, Amormino said. Her husband, James Fish, appeared to have shot himself in the temple but was alive when deputies arrived.
"Deputies found no suicide note at the home, but suspect James Fish may have decided to shoot himself and his wife because she was sick, Amormino said.
"`She was under hospice care,` Amormino said. `That's what we think is the motive.`
"Paramedics took James Fish to Mission Hospital to be treated. Since then, Amormino said, he has spoken and tried to move.
"If charged, he could be the oldest Orange County resident to be charged with murder. `She was under hospice care and suffering, however, that's not a legal excuse,` he said."
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