Every day in the U.S. about 108 people are shot dead in one way or another. At GunMemorial.org we try to post pages for all of these people even though the circumstances of their deaths can be drastically different.

Garland Springer, age 78

Fatally shot on August 30, 2016 in Morganfield, Kentucky.

It appears that Garland killed his wife, and then himself. She was terminally ill and in a great deal of pain.

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One other person also died in this incident.

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