Bizarre Shooting Investigated As Murder/Suicide

"SPRING CREEK, NV — Elko County sheriff’s detectives are investigating a possible murder/suicide that occurred Friday at a home in Spring Creek.

"According to detective Cpl. James Carpenter, deputies were dispatched at 9:30 p.m. to a residence Friday on a report a woman had been shot. A male caller, later identified as Kurt Stefka, 48, had told the dispatcher he had been shot at by his wife.

"During an attempt to disarm her, Stefka had said the gun discharged and struck his wife, Stacie Stefka, 42, in the head. Stefka then hung up on the dispatcher.

"Deputies found both Kurt and Stacie Stefka on the floor of their residence, bleeding.

"Kurt Stefka was transported to Northeastern Nevada Regional Hospital where he was later declared to be dead as the result of a self-inflicted gunshot. Stacie Stefka was declared dead at her home as the result of a gunshot to her head."

Source: Elko Daily Free Press...