Elderly Murder/Suicide In Retirement Home

"ROCKVILLE, MD — Montgomery County police detectives are investigating what appears to be a murder-suicide at a Rockville nursing home, authorities said.

"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.

"`We are investigating this as a murder-suicide,` Innocenti said.

"Authorities identified the dead couple as Albert and Sandra Ballard of Parkvale Road in Rockville. Albert Ballard was 80 and Sandra Ballard was 74."

Source: Washington Post...