59. VCSO: Ormond Beach woman tells neighbor fatal shooting of husband Easter morning inside home accidental

 

ORMOND BEACH -- The Volusia County Sheriff's Office's Major Case Unit has not said definitively that the early Easter Sunday morning shooing death of a 55-year-old man in Ormond-by-the-Sea apparently at the hands of his wife was accidental as she told a neighbor.

Victim Sanford Olson's wife was interviewed about the death at 7 Seabreeze Drive after receiving a call at 2:52 a.m. Easter Sunday about a shooting that had happened. When they arrived on scene, deputies discovered he had been shot to death.

"The Sheriff's Office was dispatched to the scene after a resident called 9-1-1 at 2:52 a.m., saying her neighbor was banging on her door and asking her to call the police because she had shot her husband," agency spokesman Gary Davidson told Headline Surfer®. "Four minutes later, deputies began arriving at the scene of the shooting, 7 Seabreeze Drive, and found Sanford Olson lying on a bed inside the home with a gun beside him."

"The Sheriff's Office was dispatched to the scene after a resident called 911 at 2:52 a.m., saying her neighbor was banging on her door and asking her to call the police because she had shot her husband," agency spokesman Gary Davidson told Headline Surfer®. "Four minutes later, deputies began arriving at the scene of the shooting, 7 Seabreeze Drive, and found Sanford Olson lying on a bed inside the home with a gun beside him."

The husband was pronounced dead at 3:07 a.m. The slain man's wife, 57-year-old Doris Barrells, had told her neighbor that the shooting was an accident.

Sheriff's investigators interviewed Barrells that fateful day, and she was fully cooperative with the investigation, Davidson said.

The Sheriff's Office later determined, though, that the fatal shooting was the result of a suicide.

The fatal shooting of Sanford Olson comes in at No. 59 in the HeadlineSurfer.com countdown of the top 100 stories of 2014.

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