Elderly man allegedly fatally suffocated his wife and tried to kill himself in failed murder-suicide
03/26/2024 12:06 pm PDT
SUN CITY, S.C. (TCD) -- An elderly man is in custody on suspicion of killing his wife and trying to end his own life over the weekend.
According to a news release from the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office, on Saturday, March 23, dispatchers received a call from a man at Penny Creek Drive who claimed "he and his wife had killed themselves." Deputies responded to the residence, where they found a 77-year-old woman deceased.
The sheriff's office also found the woman's husband, John Rounds, also 77, with multiple non-life-threatening cuts. Beaufort County Emergency Medical Services personnel treated the man at the scene, and then deputies transported him to Coastal Carolina Hospital.
Further investigation revealed Rounds allegedly suffocated his wife to death and then attempted to kill himself in a failed murder-suicide.
Rounds was later released from the hospital and booked into the Beaufort County Detention Center on a charge of murder. He remains held without bond.
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