Care home resident arrested after elderly woman shot dead

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Police have launched a murder inquiry after a woman in her 80s was shot dead at a care home&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The pensioner was declared dead at the scene&comma; at Delamer House in Naze Park Road&comma; Walton-on-the-Naze&comma; Essex Police confirmed&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A man&comma; also a resident at the same address&comma; has been arrested on suspicion of murder&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Police said both victim and suspect were known to each other&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Emergency services were called to the home just after 9am following reports that a woman had been seriously injured&comma; police said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Officers and ambulance crews attended but the woman&comma; believed to be in her 80s&comma; died&period; She is believed to have been shot&comma; police said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Detective Chief Inspector Simon Werrett&comma; who is leading the investigation&comma; said&colon; &&num;8220&semi;At this stage we are not looking for anyone else in connection with the investigation and our inquiries are ongoing&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A scene guard has been put in place at the premises while forensic searches are conducted&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Douglas Carswell&comma; the Ukip MP for the area&comma; said he was &&num;8220&semi;very shocked&&num;8221&semi; by the news&comma; adding that Walton-on-the-Naze was usually a peaceful place&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He said&colon; &&num;8220&semi;It&&num;8217&semi;s very shocking&period; If you have got a loved one in a care home&comma; you expect them to be safe&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;People need to know the exact circumstances of what happened&comma; it is extremely disturbing&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Walton-on-the-Naze is supposed to be one of the most peaceful and tranquil places there is &&num;8211&semi; elderly people want to be in a peaceful and tranquil environment&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Of all the places you expect this to happen&comma; this is the last&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Carswell said he knew Delamer House well and it had recently been renovated&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He said&colon; &&num;8220&semi;I know the care home well&comma; I have been several times&period; I know the staff are very good people and they must be fairly shocked by this&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Nearby resident John Knights said security was tight at the care home&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Retired financial adviser Mr Knights&comma; whose wife Marlene runs the Bucket and Spade guest house a short distance from Delamer House&comma; said&colon; &&num;8220&semi;My mother had to go into Delamer about two years ago and I can tell you that it was quite tricky to get in and out of there&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Security was tight&period; You couldn&&num;8217&semi;t just go up to the building and get in&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;You needed a security code to get in&period; It had electronic key pads on the door&comma; so to get inside you needed to know those&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Whoever was responsible must have known the code&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A spokeswoman for the care home said there would be no comment until staff have spoken with police&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed2e3271e16">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; function &lpar;&rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; false &equals;&equals;&equals; &lpar; window&period;isWatlV1 &quest;&quest; 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