{"id":32429,"date":"2023-07-20T21:38:30","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T21:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=32429"},"modified":"2023-07-20T21:38:34","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T21:38:34","slug":"man-80-charged-with-shooting-wife-at-sanford-home-wftv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=32429","title":{"rendered":"Man, 80, charged with shooting wife at Sanford home &#8211; WFTV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-tl066j-0 leZkxI body-paragraph\">SANFORD, Fla. &#8211; An 80-year-old man was arrested Thursday shortly after he shot and killed his 78-year-old wife at their home, the Sanford Police Department said.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"heading__StyledHeading-sc-5jxglz-0 ijSEFf\">>>> STREAM CHANNEL 9 LIVE EYEWITNESS NEWS <<\/h3>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-tl066j-0 leZkxI body-paragraph\">Police said Nicholas Coulantes called 911 shortly after 8 a.m. to report that he had just shot a person at his home on South Summerlin Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-tl066j-0 leZkxI body-paragraph\">Investigators found him in the front yard of his home and discovered the body of his wife, Alexandria Coulantes, inside the home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-tl066j-0 leZkxI body-paragraph\">Read: Tropical wave near Africa has 20% chance of forming next week<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-tl066j-0 leZkxI body-paragraph\">Nicholas Coulantes was arrested on charges of second degree murder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-tl066j-0 leZkxI body-paragraph\">Detectives said they are still trying to determine why he killed her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-tl066j-0 leZkxI body-paragraph\">&#8220;This is not a case of who killed Alexandria. The &#8216;why&#8217; Nicholas Coulantes took his wife&#8217;s life is what investigators are working hard to understand,&#8221; said Sanford Police Chief Cecil Smith , in a statement.  &#8220;This is a devastating event, and we would like to at least give the Alexandria family the answer to that question.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-tl066j-0 leZkxI body-paragraph\">Read: American Heartland, Disneyland-sized theme park to be built in Oklahoma<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-tl066j-0 leZkxI body-paragraph\">Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call Sanford police or Crimeline at 800-423-8477.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-tl066j-0 leZkxI body-paragraph\">Click here to download the free WFTV weather and news apps, click here to download the WFTV Now app for your smart TV, and click here to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-1gn0vty-0 gAFIWJ image-metadata\"><span class=\"title\">Nicholas Coulantes (suspect) <\/span>(Sanford Police Department)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FSanfordPolice%2Fposts%2Fpfbid0eQsCcdHRNozNU5hLLNMnyi7KyMCVDsbDvtzuVN4pKgCcPX2V8mp1qqYzmj42kbMkl&#038;show_text=true&#038;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"734\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-tl066j-0 leZkxI body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92023 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/news\/local\/man-80-accused-shooting-his-wife-death-their-sanford-home\/X3WZ3RQ4A5EVXEZYRS2TK6SMPU\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANFORD, Fla. &#8211; An 80-year-old man was arrested Thursday shortly after he shot and killed his 78-year-old wife at their home, the Sanford Police Department said. >>> STREAM CHANNEL 9 LIVE EYEWITNESS NEWS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":32430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32431,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32429\/revisions\/32431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}