88-Year-Old Man On Suicide Watch After Shooting Wife At Nevada Hospital

An 88-year-old man who shot his wife at a Nevada hospital is on suicide watch as of Monday, reports say. The man was also arrested, charged with attempted murder and is being held on $255,000 bail at the Carson City Jail.

William Dresser shot his wife in the chest in her third floor room at the Carson Tahoe Regional Medical Center on Sunday morning. Dresser walked into the hospital and went to her room in the rehabilitation ward, the Associated Press reported. He fired one shot from a small-caliber semi-automatic handgun that he recently purchased. Reports say no one else was in the room when the wife was shot.

The hospital was put on lockdown for nearly two hours while the suspect was apprehended and other medical staff tended to the hospital's patients. The hospital said in a statement the shooting was a "targeted situation." No one else was wounded.

"It was very, very quickly under control," Sheriff Ken Furlong said, according to CarsonNow.org.

Dresser's wife, whose name and age are not yet released, suffered life-threatening injuries and was moved to the Renown Regional Medical Center in Reno, Furlong told the AP.

The exact reason for the wife's initial stay at the hospital was not immediately released, but CNN reported it was due to a previous injury. Authorities do not think foul play was involved. Dresser has no criminal record, Furlong told the AP. The motive for Dresser's shooting was also not released.

Another shooting took place next to same hospital nearly a month ago. Alan Oliver Frazier, 51, walked into Urology Nevada and shot two doctors. One of the doctors died, the AP reported. Frazier then committed suicide.

Frazier confessed to his intent in a suicide note he left, stating he wanted to harm the physicians at the medical center because he felt they were responsible for a vasectomy that left him in pain, the AP reported.

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