Police found Jerome and Katharine Woolums in a bedroom with gunshot wounds to the head in the early hours of Oct. 16
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- An elderly married couple in their 90s died in an apparent murder-suicide at a Mesa, Ariz., care facility on Oct. 16
- The couple were identified as Jerome and Katharine Woolums
- The case remains open, according to police
An Arizona married couple in their 90s are dead after an apparent murder-suicide.
In the early hours of Thursday, Oct. 16, police responded to an elderly group home and care facility in Mesa, Ariz., following a report of two residents “who had been shot and were not breathing,” the Mesa Police Department said in a news release obtained by PEOPLE. CBS affiliate KPHO was first to report the news.
Staff at the facility — which police said is located in the 1000 block of W. Mendoza Avenue, but did not name — told police that a male resident, later identified as 92-year-old Jerome Woolums, had possibly shot himself…