TORRANCE, Calif.–A coroner’s official today released the names of a husband and wife, both in their 70s, who died in a murder-suicide inside the woman’s room at a Torrance hospital.
They were Marlow Hugo Galbraith, 75, and Joanna Sue Galbraith, 74, both of Torrance, said Los Angeles County coroner’s Lt. Joe Bale.
Galbraith shot and killed his wife in her fourth-floor room at Providence Little Company Of Mary Hospital at 4100 Torrance Blvd. around 10:15 p.m. Saturday before turning the gun on himself, said Torrance police Sgt. Robert Watt.
Joanna Sue Galbraith had checked into the hospital in November and her husband was visiting her in a heart patient unit when the shooting occurred, according to the Daily Breeze. Hospital officials would not discuss the woman’s ailment; nor would they say if she was terminally ill.
Torrance police detectives urged anyone with any information regarding the victims or the shooting to call them at (310) 618-5570.
