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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Kelly Rissman

Man, 88, is accused of shooting dead his 87-year-old wife in front of their daughter inside Virginia home

Douglas Sommer, 88, is accused of fatally shooting his 87-year-old wife in front of their daughter at their home in Virginia - (Fairfax County Police Department)

An 87-year-old Virginia woman was shot dead — and police believe her 88-year-old husband is responsible.

The unnamed daughter of Marilyn Sommer, 87, reported to Fairfax County police just after 6 a.m. Friday that her father had shot her mother at their home on the 13000 block of Pennypacker Lane in Chantilly, just 40 minutes outside of Washington, D.C. The octogenarian was suffering trauma to the upper body; she was declared dead at the scene, police said.

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