Pair Critical After Attempted Murder/Suicide

"WOODBRIDGE, NJ - Police were investigating the attempted murder of a township woman by her husband who then attempted to kill himself.

"`My husband shot me,` Donna Bove, 39, of 48 Amherst Avenue, said as she ran out of her house about 3:55 p.m. Wednesday, witnesses told police.

"Police responding to reports of shots being fired at the house in the Colonia section of the township found the woman with a bullet wound to the head. Police then found her husband, Pasquale Bove, 43, in an upstairs master bedroom with a single gunshot to his head, authorities said.

"Police said they recovered a .357 Colt Python handgun that they found next to Pasquale Bove.

"Both the wife and husband were taken to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick where they were listed in critical condition. Authorities today said the woman was upgraded to stable condition this morning at University Hospital in Newark.

"Both are listed in critical condition, police said today."

From nj.com...