Morris Samit, 78, faces a homicide charge in the fatal shooting of a 74-year-old woman near Aberdeen Golf & Country Club in suburban Boynton Beach.

BOYNTON BEACH — Morris Samit needed to cough up nearly $25,000. The man who loaned him $100,000 years earlier was threatening legal action, and the check that the 78-year-old Samit sent to finish his loan payments had bounced.

The man told Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office authorities that Samit insisted he and a woman come to Samit’s Boynton Beach-area home so they could settle the debt.

On Monday morning, the woman walked in to Samit’s three-bedroom, two-bathroom home near Aberdeen Golf & Country Club and found a 74-year-old woman dead on the master-bedroom floor and an injured Samit moaning from the bed.

Rescue crews took Samit to a hospital for a non-life threatening gunshot graze to his head. He was booked into the Palm Beach County Jail late Tuesday and is expected to appear before a judge at a bail hearing Wednesday morning.

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Authorities would not publicly identify the woman because her family signed a Marsy’s Law exemption form, meaning law enforcement cannot release her information, a sheriff’s spokeswoman said.

Records, though redacted, suggest that Samit did not want the woman to know about his debt. However, it appears she learned of it Sunday evening.

Samit told authorities from his hospital bed at Delray Medical Center that he and the woman were arguing over finances Sunday evening. Then, as she sat in a chair in the kitchen, he point a gun at her forehead and fired, killing her.

He said he rolled her body in the chair to the bedroom. He said he tried to put her into the bed but the chair snagged in the rug and he wasn’t strong enough to move her, though he tried for hours to do so, he said.

At about midnight, he went to bed.

When Samit woke up Monday morning, he texted the woman to whom he owed the money to ensure she still planned to come over to discuss his debt. After she confirmed she was, Samit put a pillow over his head — he wanted to muffle the gun’s sound, he said, as it was loud when he shot the woman — and fired a bullet from the gun he had bought a few months earlier.

It barely hit him.

Court records show Samit filed for bankruptcy in 2014. At the time, he had more than $40,000 in credit-card debit.

The man who loaned him the $100,000 about two years ago told sheriff’s authorities that Samit asked for the money because he had made "some bad investments."

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