By CLAIRE WEBB
2009-12-29 10:26:03
LAGUNA WOODS-A 90-year-old retired doctor suspected of shooting his elderly wife in the head, died in October after shooting himself weeks prior.
Authorities believed Dr. James Clyde Fish turned a small-caliber pistol on himself after he killed his wife, Phyllis Fish, 88, because of her ailing health on Sept. 20. Fish remained in critical but stable condition until a couple weeks after the apparent murder-suicide in the Laguna Woods Village retirement community.
Fish became one of the oldest manslaughter suspects in the county.
Officials said Fish spoke to investigators and could move on several occasions after the shooting, but the 90-year-old man remained with a bullet lodged in his brain, according to an Orange County Register article.
Fish was transferred from Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo to a Los Angeles hospice before he was pronounced dead on Oct. 6, according to Jim Amormino, a spokesman for the Orange County Sheriff's Department.
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