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wonder if the victim and myself were related. his last name is Manning. MICHELLE
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Columbia woman charged in husband’s death
She’s accused of giving double amputee an overdose of medications
A 68-year-old Columbia woman, Carol Kring Ross, was arrested Thursday in connection with the May 11 death of her 69-year-old paraplegic husband, Larry Manning Ross.
Ross, a former nurse of 23 years, is charged with murder, accused of giving her husband of 47 years an overdose of medications, some of which had been prescribed for him and some which were held in her name, Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said in a statement.
Authorities were called to the Ross house on Bee Ridge Road in a subdivision behind the Spring Valley Country Club shortly before 6 p.m. May 4 by a family friend.
The neighbor said the couple’s 12-year-old adopted daughter told her that when she got home from school her parents were arguing and her father said her mother had “given him too many pills,.” according to the sheriff’s department. The neighbor called police after she tried unsuccessfully to revive Ross.
When sheriff’s deputies arrived at the house, however, Carol Ross was not there and Larry Ross was “unresponsive in bed.” He was taken to the Veterans Administration Hospital where he died a week later.
Carol Ross had called the sheriff’s department around 3:15 p.m. May 4, threatening to commit suicide. Deputies were sent out to try to find her with the understanding that she was driving around in a car, sheriff’s department spokesman Curtis Wilson said. Deputies did not go to the home until the second call from the neighbor came in just before 6 p.m.
A toxicology test was performed on blood taken at the time Ross was admitted to the Veterans Administration Hospital, Richland County Coroner Gary Watts said. The test determined that Ross died of an overdose of prescription medications, authorities contend.
A 1963 graduate of The Citadel, Ross was a member of the 1961 Citadel football team.
At the time of his death, Ross had been bedridden for five years, authorities said. He was a double leg amputee and, according to the obituary written in May, a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War. After recovering from severe injuries during military service he returned to school to earn a PhD in psychology from the University of South Carolina and practiced counseling for many years. Ross will be interred at Arlington National Cemetery on September 15, an email from his brother said.
Ross turned herself in Thursday morning and was released on $100,000 bail, according to her attorney, Jack Swerling.
“This came as a total shock to her, us and anyone who knows her,” Swerling said. “This is not possible.”
Swerling also said the couple’s daughter is now with a guardian.
The neighbor said the couple’s 12-year-old adopted daughter told her that when she got home from school her parents were arguing and her father said her mother had “given him too many pills,.” according to the sheriff’s department. The neighbor called police after she tried unsuccessfully to revive Ross.
When sheriff’s deputies arrived at the house, however, Carol Ross was not there and Larry Ross was “unresponsive in bed.” He was taken to the Veterans Administration Hospital where he died a week later.
Carol Ross had called the sheriff’s department around 3:15 p.m. May 4, threatening to commit suicide. Deputies were sent out to try to find her with the understanding that she was driving around in a car, sheriff’s department spokesman Curtis Wilson said. Deputies did not go to the home until the second call from the neighbor came in just before 6 p.m.
A toxicology test was performed on blood taken at the time Ross was admitted to the Veterans Administration Hospital, Richland County Coroner Gary Watts said. The test determined that Ross died of an overdose of prescription medications, authorities contend.
A 1963 graduate of The Citadel, Ross was a member of the 1961 Citadel football team.
At the time of his death, Ross had been bedridden for five years, authorities said. He was a double leg amputee and, according to the obituary written in May, a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War. After recovering from severe injuries during military service he returned to school to earn a PhD in psychology from the University of South Carolina and practiced counseling for many years. Ross will be interred at Arlington National Cemetery on September 15, an email from his brother said.
Ross turned herself in Thursday morning and was released on $100,000 bail, according to her attorney, Jack Swerling.
“This came as a total shock to her, us and anyone who knows her,” Swerling said. “This is not possible.”
Swerling also said the couple’s daughter is now with a guardian.
Larry Manning Ross
| Visit Guest BookDr. Ross died May 11, 2011 at WJBD VA Medical Center. Born July 21, 1941 and raised in Northeastern North Carolina, he was a son of the late Omar F. and Bessie Manning Ross. Larry was a 1959 graduate of Ahoskie High School, a 1963 graduate of The Citadel and a proud member of the 1961 Citadel Championship Football Team. A decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, he was gravely wounded in 1968. After a medical retirement, he earned a PhD in Psychology from the University of South Carolina, and practiced as a counseling Psychologist for many years.
Surviving are his wife of 47 years, Carol Kring Ross; daughters, Kelly R. Dangler and Brittney Lynn Ross; and one brother, Daniel Ross of Toccoa, GA.
In lieu of flowers, please make donation to The Larry M. Ross Scholarship Fund-The Citadel Foundation, 171 Moultrie Street, Charleston, and SC 29409
Please sign the online guestbook at www.dunbarfunerals.com.
Surviving are his wife of 47 years, Carol Kring Ross; daughters, Kelly R. Dangler and Brittney Lynn Ross; and one brother, Daniel Ross of Toccoa, GA.
In lieu of flowers, please make donation to The Larry M. Ross Scholarship Fund-The Citadel Foundation, 171 Moultrie Street, Charleston, and SC 29409
Please sign the online guestbook at www.dunbarfunerals.com.
"WE WILL SURELY MISS THIS SCOTTISH WARRIOR AND ALL THAT HE HAS MEANT TO HIS FAMILY." - SALLY & LARRY MANNING
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