Care home resident arrested after elderly woman shot dead

Updated

Police have launched a murder inquiry after a woman in her 80s was shot dead at a care home.

The pensioner was declared dead at the scene, at Delamer House in Naze Park Road, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex Police confirmed.

A man, also a resident at the same address, has been arrested on suspicion of murder.

Police said both victim and suspect were known to each other.

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