MIDDLETOWN, N.J. (1010 WINS) – A New Jersey woman who told police that she accidentally shot her husband was charged with his murder Tuesday, prosecutors said.
Michele Linzalone, 73, called 911 on Monday morning to report the accidental shooting of her husband, 74-year-old Rocky Linzalone, at their home in Middletown, according to the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office.
Officers responding to the Borden Road home found the husband in a second-floor bedroom with a gunshot wound to his head. He later died.
Monmouth County prosecutors joined a police investigation into the shooting, and authorities determined that it “was not the result of an accidental discharge.”
Linzalone was charged with first-degree murder and second-degree possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose. If convicted of murder, she faces up to life in prison.
Prosecutors haven’t indicated a possible motive for the shooting.
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