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YOU READ IT HERE FIRST (11:10 a.m.): An 82-year-old Mahwah man who shot and killed his wife this morning died after shooting himself in the head, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli told CLIFFVIEW PILOT moments ago. READ MORE….
The gunman has tentatively been identified as 82-year-old Harry Ellis and his wife as Barbara Ellis, 79.
“Both are alive but critical,” a law enforcement source told CLIFFVIEW PILOT at 10:20 this morning.
Mahwah police were called around 8:15 a.m. and immediately summoned the Bergen County Police Department SWAT team.
They surrounded the 5,900-square-foot house at 30 Polo Lane — off Route 287 and barely a mile from the New York border — and brought Barbara Ellis to a nearby hospital with a bullet wound to the head.
She was last known in critical condition, a law enforcement official
told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.“It doesn’t look good for either of them,” he said.
A source with direct knowledge told CLIFFVIEW PILOT that Ellis, an amateur ham radio operator, called their 42-year-old daughter from inside the home during this morning’s incident.
Members of the BCPD’s Emergency Trauma Response Team, including Dr. John Locurto of Hackensack University Medical Center and and medics Fred Emmer and Eric Harvey, began treating Ellis immediately after he shot himself and on the way to the hospital.
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