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Metro Police investigate what they believe was a suicide-attempted murder case on Perkins Hill Street in northwest Las Vegas.
By Kyle B. Hansen (contact) 
Published Monday, May 18, 2009 | 10:18 a.m.
Updated Monday, May 18, 2009 | 3:22 p.m.
Metro Police cars line the street outside a residence where they say a man killed himself after assaulting his wife.
Suicide-attempted murder
Metro Police are investigating a suicide-attempted murder case in the northwest Las Vegas Valley, police spokesman Jacinto Rivera said.
At about 9:23 a.m., police received a call about an incident in the 7300 block of Perkins Hill Street, which is near Hualapai Way and Elkhorn Road.
When police responded, they found a woman with blunt force trauma injuries. Further investigation led police to discover the woman's husband in the upstairs of the home, dead from an apparent suicide, Rivera said.
The man and woman had three children ranging from age 4 to 14, who had spent the previous night with their grandparents. The grandparents were visiting from out of town and were staying at a casino, police said. The grandmother went to the home Monday morning to return the children and discovered blood on the floor and her daughter with serious injuries. She went to a neighbor's home, where she called police.
The children remained in the woman's vehicle and didn't see the crime scene, Rivera said.
The 40-year-old man’s death appears to be a suicide, and the incident likely is related to domestic violence, police said. Police found weapons in the home but wouldn't say whether they were used in the incident.
The 36-year-old woman was taken to University Medical Center with serious head injuries. The Metro Police violent crime section is investigating. Police said there had been no prior calls to the home for domestic violence.
The neighborhood where the incident occurred is still under construction.
“It’s a very new neighborhood, it is a very nice neighborhood,” Rivera said.
Rivera said domestic situations are the most common calls Metro receives.
“Domestic situations are far-reaching, it has no social or economic border," he said. "They (are) everywhere."
vegas is getting to be a bad place. it's getting to be every day with something like this.
Why can't people just get a divorce and get on with their lives instead of killing each other.
Stevenm, it isn't just Vegas. Read the paper from any city and you'll see the same.
Stevem,
When you find Utopia please let me know where it is. I'd like to live there too. I do believe we have the highest crime rate for about 6 years running. I'm not sure how fair that statistic is only because we get so many visitors and transients from other states. It seems like every fugitive on America's Most Wanted is caught in Las Vegas.
All we've heard about is what was in the article, the fact is that the woman was cheating on her husband with threats of her taking the children away. He found himself in a bad situation, some people feel this the best way out.
Hndyman1965, what makes you think you KNOW she was cheating and threatening him? I know this family and while the rumors of cheating and threats to take the children may be true, it does not excuse this tragedy and the fact that he beat her almost to death. You say, "He found himself in a bad situation, some people feel this the best way out." Don't forget he beat her with weapons and that is inexcusable, I don't care what the circumstances are! He adored these children and visaversa. That being said, why do this to your children and also try to leave them without a mother? Walk out the door, file for divorce! If the mother truly was neglecting her children, she probably wouldn't fight for them and no judge is going to let her keep the kids from their father unless he could have been proven unfit, which I doubt.