Newport Beach, CA – Police say a 75-year-old man is being held on suspicion of fatally shooting an Orange County physician in his examination room.
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Newport Beach police spokeswoman Kathy Lowe identified the suspect on Tuesday as Stanwood Fred Elkus of Lake Elsinore. His bail was $1 million.
Police say Elkus shot and killed Dr. Ronald Franklin Gilbert on Monday afternoon at the medical office near Hoag Hospital. Gilbert, a 52-year-old Huntington Beach resident, was a urologist.
Police say as many as seven shots were fired, but no motive was released.
The Daily Pilot reports that A neighbor who lives near Gilbert’s large hacienda-style home in Huntington Harbour said the family was “really nice.” “I have nothing but good things to say,” neighbor Betty Combs said. “They are practicing orthodox Jews. On Saturdays, they dressed to the nines and walked to synagogue.”
I have always believed that hospitals or medical centers should have armed security and metal detectors (like they have in Israel ).
Does it matter that he was “orthodox”? It is a tragedy no mater what!
BDE
Baruch Dayan HaEmes. This is terrible, my heart goes out to his family.
This will stop when you have more law abiding citizens with guns.,
Hy”d. BD”E. May his family have a nechama and may he be a meilitz yosher for the entitre klal yisrael.
Hy”d
Any idea on what the motive was?
a doctor dedicated to helping and healing murdered. BDE. so sad.