August 26, 2011 Police say elderly couple attempts suicide and then drives to police station www.privateofficer.com
LOXLEY, Alabama Aug 26 2011 — Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office deputies are investigating what appears to have been a failed “suicide pact” that took place in the Rosinton community early this morning, authorities said.
James Morrow, 70, and Anne Morrow, 65, told investigators that they had mutually agreed to the act because of financial hardships, according to Maj. Anthony Lowery, Sheriff’s Office spokesman.
The couple had been staying at Wilderness RV Park on Patterson Road in Robertsdale, said Loxley police Lt. Doug Phillips.
While parked somewhere on Campbell Road inside the couple’s Ford F-150 pickup truck, James Morrow shot Anne in the back of the head then turned the gun on his own head, Lowery said.
James Morrow then drove the truck about 3 miles to the Loxley Police Department, where the couple went inside for help, Phillips said.
“At first, when they said they wanted to report that they’d attempted suicide, we thought they had used sleeping pills or something along those lines,” Phillips said. “They were walking and talking, and they were in distress but not overly in distress.”
Soon, it became clear that they had each sustained a gunshot injury to the head, and officers called for medical help, he said.
A suicide note was later found inside the couple’s truck, Lowery said.
The Morrows were taken to the University of South Alabama Medical Center in Mobile — James by medical helicopter and Anne by ambulance, Lowery said. The victims’ wounds did not appear to be life-threatening, he said.
Deputies interviewed both subjects at the hospital, Lowery said. There are no pending charges in the case at this time, he said.
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