Las Vegas Sun

March 19, 2024

Murder-suicide leaves Henderson couple dead, police say

Incident

A 62-year-old man and his 63-year-old wife were found dead in an apparent murder-suicide Tuesday night at their Henderson home, according to city police.

Officers responded about 9 p.m. to the house in the 10 block of Via Paradiso Street, at Lake Las Vegas, after a friend of the husband’s called police, according to a Henderson Police news release.

The husband had sent the friend a text message that said he couldn’t handle the stress and pain any longer, police said.

Officers on scene tried to contact the couple, who lived alone in the house, and when that failed, officers and Henderson Fire Department workers entered and found the wife dead of an apparent gunshot wound, police said.

The husband was dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said.

The Clark County Coroner’s Office will release the names of the deceased as well as the official causes of death in the case.

There was no history of domestic violence-related calls to Henderson Police at that location, police said.

The woman’s death is the third murder this year investigated by Henderson Police.

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