POSSIBLE MURDER-SUICIDE: Airman, wife die in shooting

This story wasn't sad enough until I read the names. This is after the reporter said authorities have not released the names, which usually means a family member picked up the paper and found out about this tragedy by reading it. Why was there a rush in reporting the names? Wasn't it bad enough they reported the address? What harm would it have done to have waited until the police said they contacted the families?

In the past, I've been part of this kind of mess without intending it. I simply assume that police have notified family members before reporters release the names. It's very hard on them to find out someone they love died but especially hard when it involves suspected murder-suicide.

POSSIBLE MURDER-SUICIDE: Airman, wife die in shooting
Las Vegas Review - Journal - Las Vegas,NV,USA

SWAT officers find couple dead after standoff in North Las Vegas

By MAGGIE LILLIS, LAWRENCE MOWER and KEITH ROGERS

A Nellis Air Force Base airman and his wife died in what is believed to be a murder-suicide Friday in a North Las Vegas apartment.

The deaths ended a roughly two-hour standoff with North Las Vegas police, during which the airman, an Iraq war veteran who might have been suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, shot at police.

Police said a third party, a friend of the wife's, called police about 5:30 a.m. claiming that the gunman was holding a gun to his wife's head inside the apartment, Sgt. Tim Bedwell said.

Officers made contact with the man at a ground-level unit at the Craig Ranch Villas apartments, 370 Casa Norte Drive, near Commerce Street and Lone Mountain Road. He retreated into the apartment and fired shots through a window at police, Bedwell said.

When SWAT officers entered the apartment about 8 a.m., they found the two people dead from gunshot wounds. click link for more