An elderly man has been arrested following a Christmas shooting at a care home in Essex. The man is suspected of killing his wife, an 81-year old resident at a care home in Walton-on-the-Naze. Rita King was shot dead with a revolver at De La Mer House in Naze Park Road just three days after Christmas. Essex police have launched a murder investigation. Wharf reports: The alleged attacker was Mrs King’s 86-year-old husband Ronald, according to reports. Essex police confirmed the gunman and Mrs King were related and that he had been staying at the care home. The manager at De La Mer told how she persuaded the armed man to hand over the weapon. Julie Curtis, who has run the home for two years, said she saw the man walking towards her holding a gun. She put her arm around the man, who had reportedly been staying for one week over the Christmas period, and pleaded for him to drop the weapon. She told the Press Association: “I put my left arm around him and put his right arm between him and the gun and said, ‘Please, please give me the gun’, and he let go.” Mrs Curtis said at [...]