Residents of Firestone, a suburb of Madina in Accra, were awaken to a bizarre incident Sunday morning when a 57-year-old man killed his wife before committing suicide. Emmanuel Nii Adjei Owusu was alleged to have shot the wife, Mrs Elizabeth Adjei Owusu, 50, on their matrimonial bed at about 2:30am on May 13, 2012 before turning the locally manufactured pistol on himself. The couple were said to have had a quarrel before retiring to bed. A locally-manufactured pistol and two empty cartridges were retrieved from the room. The deceased couple, were said to have been married for more than 20 years and had three grown up children. The Accra Regional Crime Officer, Chief Superintendent Frank Adufati said a team of police personnel sent to the house after they had received the information found Emmanuel Owusu lying in a pool of blood with gunshot wounds on his ear. Elizabeth Owusu, he said, later died at the 37 Military Hospital where she was rushed to by her daughter, Linda Naa Adjeley Adjetey, 27. Linda, he said, apparently rushed to her parents' room upon hearing the gunshots only to find the father lying in a pool of blood in their living room whereas her mother lay unconscious on their matrimonial bed. Mr Adufati said Linda allegedly raised an alarm upon seeing the situation, attracting neighbours to House Number 30, Madina. He said with the help of neighbours, Elizabeth who was in a very critical condition, was rushed to the 37 Military hospital where she was put on live-support machine but could not pull through. He said Lt Col Dr Appiah, a Neuro-Surgeon at the hospital informed the police that Elizabeth was shot in the ear and the pellets embedded in her brain so there was no way she could have survived the shot. The body of Emmanuel has been deposited at the Police Hospital Morgue while that of his wife has been deposited at the 37 Military hospital, awaiting autopsy.