Doctor Shot Dead in Exam Room; Man in Custody.

Police say a 75-year-old man is being held on suspicion of fatally shooting an Orange County physician in his examination room.

Newport Beach police spokeswoman Kathy Lowe identified the suspect on Tuesday as Stanwood Fred Elkus of Lake Elsinore. His bail was $1 million. Police say Elkus shot and killed Dr. Ronald Franklin Gilbert on Monday afternoon at the medical office near Hoag Hospital. Gilbert, a 52-year-old Huntington Beach resident, was a urologist.

Police say as many as seven shots were fired, but no motive was released. A doctor was fatally shot in an examination room of an Orange County medical office, and the man who police believe shot him was taken into custody in the same room without a struggle, authorities said

Several 911 calls reported six or seven shots fired Monday afternoon at the medical office near Hoag Hospital in Orange County, Newport Beach police spokeswoman Kathy Lowe told The Associated Press.

Officers found a man dead from gunshot wounds in a patient examination room, Lowe said.
They took into custody another man in the room.


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