Bodies of elderly couple found in Henderson

A husband and wife in their 60s were found dead after an apparent murder-suicide Friday morning in a Henderson residential neighborhood, police said.

The woman’s caretaker called 911 about 6:50 a.m. after finding the pair “with no apparent signs of life” in a home in the 100 block of Metropolitan Drive, near Burkholder Boulevard and East Lake Mead Parkway, a Henderson Police Department release states.

Both the 63-year-old man and the 60-year-old woman had been shot, and police said they appeared to have died in a murder-suicide.

Police learned that the woman had lived with various medical conditions, the release said.

Neighbors knew that the woman was suffering from dementia and that her husband was struggling to care for her, said Valerie Maes, who lives a stone’s throw from the couple’s home.

He had brought his wife to an assisted-living facility in recent months, but the couple had returned to the house in the last week, she said.

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manifest disregard of the law,” Bare wrote in his order. “This court finds that the … arbitration award was based upon an appropriate application of the statutory guidelines to the evidence presented throughout the arbitration.”

The arbitrator’s decision was one of the reasons the district pre-emptively had schools cut budgets in the spring, even as it appealed the ruling to the court.

District officials said at the time the money would be held aside as the appeal worked through the court system.

It wasn’t clear Friday whether the district would appeal the judge’s decision.

“Our legal team is in the process of reviewing the judge’s decision,” spokeswoman Kirsten Searer said Friday afternoon.

If the district doesn’t appeal, the increase in pay for teachers will be retroactive to June 1, and the district’s increased contributions to the Teachers Health Trust will be retroactive to July 1, 2017, per the original award.

John Vellardita, the executive director of the teacher’s union, urged new Superintendent Jesus Jara to use his influence to head off further appeals.

“When Superintendent Jara arrived, it’s clear that he inherited problems. At some point, those problems will become his problems,” Vellardita said. “I think this is an example, if we don’t have closure on this and move forward, it will then become his problem, and that’s not going to going to be good for our relationship.”

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