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Doc discusses suspected mercy killing

By Thomas Sheeran
Published August 13, 2012 4:00am ET
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Doc discusses suspected mercy killing
FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Summit County Sheriff Department shows John Wise. Wise, partially disabled by nerve damage, watched a tear roll down the face of his wife, bedridden in intensive care since a stroke a week earlier and unable to speak, seemingly blinking to acknowledge him, and, perhaps, their agreement that they didn't want to live out their years bedridden and disabled, he told a friend. Now, Wise is facing charges of shooting her in the head in that hospital, presumably as a mercy killing. The aggravated murder charge against him raises a dilemma for the prosecution and defense: what's the appropriate punishment? (AP Photo/Summit County Sheriff Department, File) | AP

AKRON, Ohio (AP) — The man charged in the suspected mercy killing of his wife at a hospital intensive care unit asked the doctor who confronted him, “Please tell me she’s dead,” the doctor said Monday.

In his first interview about the shooting at Akron General Medical Center, Dr. Michael A. Passero Jr. said he repeatedly asked John Wise, 66, to give up his weapon after the shooting.

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