Attempted Murder/Suicide At Florida Hospital

"NAPLES, FL — A Collier County woman was shot and killed while she visited a patient at a Naples hospital and her estranged husband was being treated for a self-inflicted gunshot wound Tuesday.

"Christine Ann Moretz, 53, was at Physicians Regional Medical Center (Web site here), where the Collier County Sheriff's Office said she was killed.

"She and her husband Jeffrey L. Moretz, 54, who lives in the 6000 block of English Oaks Lane, were separated, said Collier County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Michelle Batten.

"`Why he was there is something we're looking into,` Batten said.

"No one else was hurt in the shooting, which was called into Collier County 911 at 5:41 p.m.

"No one has been arrested, Batten said.

"Collier County court records show the couple was in the process of divorcing and had a court date scheduled for July 25.

"A foreclosure was filed against the couple in March 2009, court records show. Jeffrey Moretz also had eviction proceedings against him earlier this year, court records show.

"A contractor, Jeffrey Moretz was arrested on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon in 2009, Collier sheriff's records show.

"He allegedly shot a firearm in his home when his son complained that he sent him to a bad dentist, according to news reports of the incident. He chased his son, and one shot almost struck his wife in the head."

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