An elderly East Naples husband and wife believed to have been killed in a murder-suicide on Friday, were found shot to death in bed, according to details released Tuesday in a Collier County Sheriff’s Office incident report.
Investigators found a short-barrel revolver on the bed next to 91-year-old Arthur McGill, who had blood on his lower torso. His wife, Florence Ann McGill, 89, was lying next to her husband with the bedspread partially covering her body, reports said.
There was a bullet hole through the bedspread into Florence McGill’s lower torso.
Reports list Florence McGill as a victim, and Arthur McGill as both a victim and a suspect.
The McGills were discovered around noon on Friday by their caretaker, Phyliss Shuster, who told investigators that she visited the couple on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at their home at 113 Pier J inside the Naples Land Yacht Harbor mobile home park. Reports say the McGills had only been Shuster’s clients for a couple of weeks, and she had last seen them alive on July 8.
She told authorities she rang the doorbell and let herself in through the unlocked door when no one answered.
The Sheriff’s Office reported on Friday that the case is being investigated as a murder-suicide.
On Friday afternoon, crime scene investigators, deputies and detectives were gathered at the McGills’ white mobile home, which was wrapped in crime scene tape. A few friends and neighbors stopped by to see what was going on.
Neighbors described the McGills as “lovely people” who kept to themselves. The McGills had lived at the Naples Land Yacht Harbor for at least 30 years, neighbors said, and Florence McGill founded the park’s synchronized swim team, the Doll-Fins.
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