

5 dead in possible murder-suicide at Texas nursing center and home, police say






Police also identified the two victims in the nursing home as Ernest Starry, 85, and his wife, Thelma Montalvo, the shooter’s father and stepmother.

Police were then called to a shooting down the road, at the elder Starry and Montalvo’s home, where they found two other people dead with gunshot wounds. They were identified as the couple’s 13-year-old adopted son and Montalvo’s 41-year-old son.

The shooter killed them before the couple, the release said.

Evidence points to a murder-suicide, but the investigation is still “premature to determine a motive and we will not speculate,” the police statement said.

“Our hearts go out to the victims’ families and the residents, visitors and employees at Retama Manor who experienced this tragedy,” Robstown Police Chief Erasmo Flores said in a news release.

