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Early glimpse at Raiders’ Henderson facility

Nreveal the first glimpse of what the Raiders want in their Henderson headquarters and practice facility. The planned facility near Executive Airport Drive and St. Rose Parkway would house one and a half indoor football fields, a 200-seat theater, a training center and office space. At 323,000 square feet, the planned headquarters is about twice the size of the MGM Grand’s casino.

Outside the complex, the team plans to have three more fields, fan seating and a pool. At least 400 parking spaces are planned for the area.

Henderson officials reviewed the team’s first submission of design plans on Thursday.

Barbra Coffee, the city’s director of economic development and tourism, said the facility will be a catalyst for development in an area that is expected to grow in coming years.

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Henderson police suspect a 27-year-old man killed a 35-yearold woman and two juveniles ages 5 and 15 before killing himself inside the burning house. Moore said the shooting happened during a family disturbance.

Moore also said detectives “don’t know 100 percent” if the fire was intentionally lit.

While detectives were investigating those deaths Thursday night, police received a request for a welfare check about 11:45 p.m. on the 2800 block of Via Bel Mondo Street, near Robindale Road and Eastern Avenue. There they found a 42-year-old woman dead from a gunshot wound and a 39-year-old man dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said.

By Friday afternoon, the two-story Paradise Garden home was still an active scene roped off by crime tape.

At least two windows had been shattered. On Friday, detectives wearing blue gloves could be seen inside the house through the blown out windows. When the detectives and the crime tape was gone later in the day, a bouquet of white, pink and yellow flowers was left on the doorstep.

Danielle Gehrke and Paul Gehrke, who live across the street from the home, said they knew something was “seriously wrong,” when they heard loud bangs and a girl screaming around 7:30 p.m. Thursday night.

The gunshots came first, then when the couple looked outside they saw a teenage girl standing by the door “screaming at the top of her lungs,” Danielle Gehrke said.

They said they’ve seen a teenage girl around the family before, but they weren’t sure if she was related to the other victims. The screaming girl ran down the road when a man left the house, hurrying toward his parked car, she said.

The Gehrkes then saw their neighbor, a man they said was “super nice” when they exchanged small talk, hurry to his parked car.

The man opened his trunk and pulled out two white bags before running back inside the house with a flashlight, Danielle Gehrke said.

“It was very bizarre,” she said. “He looked panicked.”

Shesaidthatwhenhemovedthe bags made a clinking sound and when he opened the door the house was pitch-black.

The police arrived a few minutes later. The Gehrkes watched as officers forced their way through the house’s door. Fire crews arrived, and officials broke the top two windows of the house during the commotion, Danielle Gehrke said.

“I could not believe how traumatizing it was,” she said.

Dee Don, a neighbor who has lived in the house behind the victims for just over a year, said he and his children would often see the family at the community pool.

Don said he was outside Thursday night smoking when he heard the gunshots.

“It was completely quiet, peace-

ful,” he recalled Friday. “Then it was just pow, pow, pow.”

He said he heard at least four consecutive gunshots and smelled the smoke soon after.

“There was like, no pause,” Don said, shaking his head.

The six will be identified by the Clark County coroner’s office once their families have been notified.

Another street in Henderson was quiet Friday afternoon, with no crime tape visible to mark which house was the scene of Thursday’s second murder-suicide. Neighbor Vicki Collins, 41, pointed out a home on Via Bel Mondo Street where she said the shooting happened.

No one answered the door of the house Friday.

The deaths of the woman and two children at Paradise Garden Drive marked the 10th, 11th and 12th homicides investigated by Henderson police this year. The woman’s death on Via Bel Mondo Street was the 13th homicide investigation, records maintained by the Review-journal show.