Authorities say Hager was on the phone when they arrived. Carolyn Hager had talked about her desire to die, her husband told detectives, but she never asked him to kill her, the affidavit said.
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“We don’t see it in situations like this where there’s a death involved, but we frequently get called to different locations for different problems where people are at their wits end, trying to figure out how they’re going to makes ends meet, how they’re going to cover medical”, Port St. Lucie County Chief Deputy Gary Wilson said.
He’s in jail without bond.
Hager was transported to the St. Lucie County Jail and faces a charge of first-degree murder.
Hager, 86, of Port St. Lucie, Florida. “I wanted to tell my kids what happened first”, a deputy quoted Hager as saying.
The heartbreak continued to unfold as police discovered the body of Carolyn Hager, 78, propped up in bed with a bullet wound to the head and a large pool of blood beneath her.
“Hager stated Carolyn had a lot of illnesses and other ailments which required numerous medications”. I shot my wife at 7:30 this morning. Hager stated he could no longer afford the medications needed for Carolyn’s care, thus made a decision to shoot her this morning’.
A neighbor tells WPTV that Carolyn Hager had complained about “excruciating” back pain a few days earlier, but “they seemed like such a nice couple … so it was quite a shock”.
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CNN left messages Tuesday with the public defender’s office to determine whether it represents Hager.
