Spring, TX: Elderly Texas Couple Found Dead; Murder-Suicide Suspected

Police think the deaths of an elderly man and his wife at a Texas senior living complex were a murder-suicide. SPRING (October 14, 2010)—The deaths of an elderly couple in their Houston-area home were evidently a murder-suicide, police say.

The bodies of the man and woman, both in their 80s, were discovered Wednesday afternoon at a senior living

complex in Spring.

Investigators believe the man shot and killed his wife, then took his own life.Harris County Constable Precinct 4 Chief

Jim Sumner says the woman's body was found in one room, while her husband's was in another.

A note was left behind, but its contents weren’t released.

Authorities are trying to determine whether either person had been ill.

Their names were not immediately released.