A South Carolina woman was charged with murder after police found her 81-year-old husband shot dead at an assisted living facility .

The Beaufort County Sheriff's Office announced in a Facebook post that 82-year-old Harriett Kay Recker was arrested Friday. According to police, deputies responded to calls of a shooting at Preston Health Center at the Cypress in Hilton Head at around 10:30 a.m. When they arrived, they found Dennis Recker, 81, suffering from gunshot wounds in a room at the facility. Harriett Recker was there, "alongside her spouse."

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Dennis Recker was officially identified as the victim by the Beaufort County Coroner on Monday after his

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