Woman killed in domestic dispute was elementary school teacher

By Tiffany Gibson

Monday, April 19, 2010 | 11:50 a.m.

The Clark County School District has confirmed that a 46-year-old North Las Vegas woman who police say was killed by her husband in a domestic violence-related dispute last week was an elementary art teacher.

Authorities responded just before 6 a.m. Friday to a home in the 3200 block of Atwater Drive, which is near the intersection of West Alexander Road and North Simmons Street. North Las Vegas Police spokesman Tim Bedwell said the woman, identified by the Clark County Coroner's Office as Bronwyn Richards, was taken from the scene to University Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead.

The coroner's office said she died of blunt force injuries to the head. Her death has been ruled a homicide.

Her husband, 40-year-old Bobby Dale Richards, was arrested in connection with her death after giving voluntary statements to detectives about the incident, Bedwell said. He is charged with murder with a deadly weapon and has been booked into the North Las Vegas Detention Center without bail, police said.

Bobby Dale Richards appeared via videolink this morning in North Las Vegas Justice Court in front of Justice of the Peace Chris Lee.

School District spokeswoman Starla Goedeke said Bronwyn Richards worked at Joseph Neal Elementary School, 6651 W. Azure Drive. She was hired by the Clark County School District in October 1998, Goedeke said.