Man kills woman, himself in east Las Vegas mobile home park
A man fatally shot his wife and then shot himself in an East Las Vegas mobile park home on Tuesday morning, police said.
Officers with the Metropolitan Police Department received a call from the man’s father around 5:15 a.m. When police arrived on the scene in the 1600 block of Sandhill Road, they found a woman and a man lying on the living room floor suffering from gunshot wounds. Both were pronounced dead at the scene.
Homicide Lt. Robert Price said that the father, who is in his 90s, had woken up to the sound of a gunshot.
When he went into the living room, he found his son standing over the woman, holding a gun. The son then took his own life, Price added.
“It is a very tragic incident,” Price said.
Metro’s preliminary investigation revealed that the couple and the father lived together in the home in the 55+ Boulder Cascade community.
Price did not provide the names of the woman and the man, adding that the police had not yet determined a motive for the shooting.
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A previous version of this story misstated the nature of the shooting.
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