Leslie Korngold, Aman Ali and Will David
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NEW ROCHELLE - A 78-year-old New Rochelle man killed his ill wife this morning after promising to not put her in a nursing home, New Rochelle police Commissioner Patrick Carroll said today.
Paul Weinstein, a 12th-floor resident of a senior citizen building at 35 Maple Ave., calmly with no anger shot his wife, Helena, in the head in their bedroom around 11:15 a.m., Carroll said.
The woman, also in her 70s, had a list of illnesses that were long term, Carroll explained but did not detail.
They had agreed she would not go into a nursing home, he said.
Police talked the man out of killing himself through the couple's barricaded apartment door. Police spoke with him for about 15 minutes.
Weinstein was taken into custody shortly after 11:30 a.m.
He will be charged with at least manslaughter, Carroll said.
"They are always together. They never seemed to have any problems," said Mike Rush, a 10-year resident of the building who said he knew the couple well.
"As a matter of fact," he said, "they were so quiet you sometmes never knew they lived there."
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