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June 13, 2009

Police: Man killed in ICU

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Police said a woman entered a hospital intensive-care unit and fatally shot her estranged husband.

Charleston Police Detective Autumn Davis said 53-year-old Rhonda Stewart of Elkview faces a first-degree murder charge in Saturday’s shooting of 56-year-old Sammy Stewart.

Davis said Stewart walked into CAMC Memorial Hospital’s intensive-care unit and shot her husband in the head with a handgun about 2 p.m. Saturday. Police arrested her within minutes of the shooting. The victim was pronounced dead about a half-hour later. Police weren’t releasing the motive.

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