Possible Husband-Wife Murder-Suicide at National Lutheran Communities Assisted Living Facility

Possible husband-wife murder-suicide at the National Lutheran Home (Village at Rockville) assisted living facility in Rockville, Md.

According to ABC affililate ABC 7, Montgomery County police said two people are dead and investigators have characterized the deaths as a murder-suicide. The victims were a husband and his wife, who was a patient at the National Lutheran Communities & Services complex, where the bodies were found.

An elderly man signed himself into the National Lutheran Home (also called Village at Rockville) on Veirs Drive at about 9:30 a.m. He later shot his elderly wife before shooting himself, police spokesman Rebecca Innocenti said. The wife was a resident of the home, but the husband was not, she said. Police were called at about 10 a.m. Source: Washington Post

It seems like we are seeing an uptick in murder-suicides in the last week. Stay tuned. Developing.

Albert Ballard, 80, shot his 74-year-old wife, Sandra Ballard at The Village at Rockville.