A 60-year-old man was charged Friday with gunning down his wife in front of a Lake Forest hotel this week.
Philip Douglas Whyte also faces a sentence-enhancing allegation for the discharge of a firearm causing death, according to court records.
Whyte is accused of killing Cindy Whyte, 43, of Laguna Niguel, on Wednesday afternoon at the Hilton Garden Inn Irvine Spectrum, according to Carrie Braun, a spokeswoman for the Orange County Sheriff’s Department.
Deputies were called at 1:15 p.m. to the hotel at 23131 Lake Center Drive on a report of a man shooting a woman, Braun said. When deputies arrived, they found the mortally injured woman outside the hotel and detained the alleged assailant, she said.
The victim was pronounced dead at a hospital, Braun said. Her husband, who complained of an unspecified health issue, was also taken to a hospital before being booked on suspicion of murder, she said.