Long Distance Welfare Check

"Boise, ID - Early Monday morning, police received a request from out of state to perform a welfare check.

"Family members concerned that something bad may have happened to their loved ones and that's exactly what police found upon entering a townhouse in southeast Boise.

"`And they found an elderly woman deceased and they found an elderly man with some very critical, life-threatening injuries,` said Lynn Hightower, Boise Police spokesperson.

"The man was taken to the hospital where he later died.

"What happened is still unknown, but Hightower says the woman sustained suspicious injuries, although she won't say what caused the likely fatal wounds.

"`I can say that there is a weapon that detectives found on scene,` Hightower said.

"It's all quite shocking to neighbors, who never expected to wake up to police, paramedics, and even the coroner working at the house across the street.

"`They were very nice neighbors, very quiet, stayed to themselves. Just the type of neighbors you really enjoy having,` said Jack Logan.

"He also says he saw the man in question on Sunday.

"`I saw Bill walking his dog last night. I waved to him and as far as I knew everything seemed fine and dandy,` Logan said.

"But things for this couple may have been more difficult than many fully understood.

"`You have to be sympathetic to those folks. They were really in bad shape,` said Ralph Hansen.

"Hansen said the two were in failing health, and other neighbors living next door to the couple say the husband had developed Parkinson's disease, which made it hard to take care of his ailing wife.

"But no one seemed to know just how desperate their situation had really become.

"`Nobody on Arrowrock Lane expected anything like this,` said Jack Logan."

From fox12idaho.com...