Police say a woman shot and killed her terminally ill husband at AdventHealth Hospital in Daytona Beach.

DAYTONA BEACH, Florida. – Daytona Beach police said they were able to take a woman into custody after she shot and killed her terminally ill husband at Florida’s AdventHealth Daytona Beach on Saturday.

Police said they were called to the hospital at 301 Medical Memorial Parkway around 11:35 a.m. Saturday and found that Ellen Gilland, 76, had shot her husband, Jerry Gilland, 77, and locked herself in his room on the eleventh floor. .

According to the police, every patient on the eleventh floor is terminally ill.

The hostage negotiators managed to establish a dialogue with Gilland before 3 p.m., when they managed to take her into custody, police said.

Police said the couple planned the shooting three weeks ago. They said they didn’t know how she could have smuggled the gun into the hospital.

Police said during a press conference that they believed the original plan was a murder-suicide.

Staff and patients were not injured.

Gilland has been taken into custody and will be placed in the Volusia County Jail.