Dilip Patel and his wife Usha were settled in the US for 20 years
SURAT: A husband-wife duo from Bharthana locality adjoining Surat city were shot at in their motel in Elkton town of Maryland, the US, leaving the 59-year-old woman dead.
The deceased was identified as Usha Patel while her husband Dilip, 59, suffered bullet wounds in the lower torso. His condition is said to be critical but stable in a private hospital. Usha was shot in the chest by the assailant and she died on the spot on Friday night Relatives of the couple in Bharthana informed that Dilip has not been told about Usha’s death considering his medical condition.
Motel owners shot, one fatally, in room rental dispute
March 6, 2021
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ELKTON, Md. (AP) Police in Maryland say the owners of a Cecil County motel were shot in a dispute over a room rental.
Fifty-nine-year-old Ushaben Dilipbhali Patel was shot in the chest and killed Friday night at the New Eastern Motel in Elkton, which she owned with her husband.
Elkton Police say the husband, 59-year-old Dilipbhali Ishvarbrai Patel, was shot in the lower torso and was in critical but stable condition Saturday at Christiana Hospital.
Police arrested a suspect, 26-year-old Hakeem Markel Evans of Newark, Delaware, a short time later at a nearby convenience store. He was being held Saturday at the Cecil County jail.