It happened Christmas morning at a home on Pine Cone Way near Whispering Drive. Police said 78-year-old Jonathan McPhee called 911 saying he had killed his wife and was going to kill himself. Officers went to the home where they found McPhee with a self-inflicted stab wound and his wife, who was suffering from blunt-force trauma.

A 78-year-old man faces an attempted murder charge after he attacked his wife, then tried to take his own life on Christmas Day, according to the Largo Police Department.

Court, police said in a news release. It said an off-duty patrol officer who had heard the gunfire assisted the officers who were investigating. Upon arrival at the scene, officers found the husband,