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Mercy Killing? South Jersey Man May Have Killed Wife To End Suffering, Prosecutor Says
An 84-year-old South Jersey man who said his wife was suffering and "in poor health" stabbed her to death, authorities said.
Dan Mook, who is accused of fatally stabbing his 82-year-old wife, turned the knife on himself afterward, but survived, according to Burlington County Prosecutor Scott Coffina and Mount Laurel Police Chief Stephen Riedener.
Authorities are calling it a possible "mercy killing."
Mook, 84, of Mount Laurel, was charged with murder and weapons offenses, Coffina and Riedener said.
He was taken to Cooper University Hospital in Camden after the incident, and remains t…
