Lillian Jeanne Stafford

Suicide

Lillian Jeanne Stafford, a psychology teacher at Hutchinson Community College, reportedly shot herself as officers closed in to question her about the shooting death of her husband. Dr. Robert Stafford, 60, was shot and killed the night before at a medical office building across from the Hutchinson Clinic. Officers found Lillian Stafford's SUV parked in a cul-de-sac northwest of Hutchinson at around 1:20 p.m. According to police, the officers heard a gunshot coming from behind a sand dune 50-75 feet off the road, and found Stafford, suffering from a single gunshot wound to the chest. She died at a hospital.