The Associated Press
Monday, Aug. 16, 2010 | 7:07 a.m.
A husband and wife are dead after a shooting that police called a murder-suicide at a Las Vegas hospital.
The woman shot the man in a fourth-floor patient room at Valley Hospital, then turned the gun on herself a little before 5 a.m. Monday, Las Vegas police Lt. Dan Coe said.
Their names weren't immediately made public.
Police homicide Sgt. Matthew Sanford told KLAS-TV the 55-year-old man was a patient who was admitted last Tuesday with a "deteriorating" medical condition.
The man's wife spent the night in the room before the shooting, Sanford said.
The woman fired two shots, no one else was hurt, and the hospital was locked down but not evacuated, Sanford said.
Hospital administrators issued a statement saying staff members took "all appropriate actions" in response to the shooting, and that the facility was open Monday with no disruption of services.
Hospital spokeswoman Gretchen Papez said Valley Hospital has a no-weapons policy and signs posted. It does not have metal detectors.
Papez declined to respond to questions about how the gun got in the building.
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