BEAUFORT COUNTY, S.C. (WCSC) - The Beaufort County Coroner’s Office has released the name of a man they say was killed in a shooting at an assisted living facility Friday morning.

Dennis Recker, 81, of Bluffton died just before 11:30 a.m. of a gunshot wound, Chief Deputy Coroner Michael S. Bowers said.

Harriett Kay Recker, 82, of Sun City, was arrested and is facing charges of murder and possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime.

Deputies said they received a call about a report of shots fired at the Preston Health Center at the Cypress of Hilton Head on the 80 block of Birdsong Way.

Upon arrival, they responded to a patient’s room where they located Harriett Recker and her 81-year-old spouse, now identified as Dennis Recker, who was suffering from an apparent gun

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