A 90-year-old man who allegedly shot his terminally ill wife to death and then turned the gun on himself will likely be booked for voluntary manslaughter, authorities said this morning.

A caretaker for Phyllis Fish, 88, called police about 1:30 p.m. Sunday after hearing gunshots inside the couple’s Laguna Woods retirement community home, said Orange County sheriff’s spokesman Jim Amormino.

Fish suffered a gunshot wound to the head and died at the scene.

James Fish was taken to a hospital, also with a gunshot wound to the head. He is in critical condition but is speaking, Amormino said.

“She was under hospice care,” the spokesman said. “That is the motive.”

-- Paloma Esquivel in Orange County

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