Ellen Gilland, 79, said her ailing husband told her he didn’t want to live if his health continued to worsen before she shot him in a hospital room in 2023
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- Ellen Gilland, 79, of Florida, shot her husband, Jerry Gilland, 77, in his hospital room in 2023
- Weeks earlier, she claimed the couple had made a murder-suicide pact because his health was deteriorating rapidly — and hers was beginning to as well
- Gilland was recently released from prison after serving less than a year behind bars
An elderly Florida woman who was convicted of shooting and killing her terminally ill husband is speaking out after being released from prison, saying she would do it all over again to help him.
“I’m accepting the consequences,” Ellen Gilland, 79, of Winter Park, told FOX 35 Orlando in an exclusive interview that aired on Monday, Jan. 26.
On Jan. 21, 2023, Gilland shot her ailing husband of 53 years, Jerry Gilland, 77, in his hospital room at AdventHealth in Daytona Beach — with his blessing, according to FOX 35, WESH and KBTX…