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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Andrea Cavallier

‘This has just been too much for me’: Woman, 82, accused of shooting husband dead at South Carolina nursing home

Harriet Recker, 82, is charged with murder and possession of a weapon during a violent crime after allegedly shooting and killer her husband last month - (Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office)

An 82-year-old woman who friends have described as “the nicest person in Sun City” is accused of murdering her husband inside a coastal South Carolina nursing home – a shooting investigators believe was planned.

Harriet Kay Recker, 82, shot and killed her 81-year-old husband, Dennis Recker, on September 12, at the Preston Health Center on Hilton Head Island, according to the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office. She is charged with murder and possession of a weapon during a violent crime.

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