A Westmoreland County woman was charged with homicide after police said she called 911 and admitted to shooting her husband.

Fifty-one-year-old Leeann Steel is accused of killing her husband, William Steel, at their home in Hempfield Township over the weekend, the Westmoreland County District Attorney's Office announced.

Police said Leeann Steel called 911 on Saturday and told dispatchers that she had shot her husband and he needed medical attention. When troopers got to the home on Merlin Lane, they said they found William Steel in a bedroom surrounded by blood. He was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital.

"It appears she shot him in the chest," said Pennsylvania State Police trooper Steve Limani.

Investigators said they found a Beretta Tomcat that appeared to have been recently fired

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