Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Morehead Woman Victim Of Murder-Suicide

  • {Owingsville, Kentucky}...Kentucky State Police say Valerie K. Stevens, 43, of Morehead, and Richard N. Spillman, 53, of Grayson, both died of gunshot wounds early Tuesday in an apparent murder-suicide. Stevens, an employee of St. Claire Regional Medical Center, was killed outside a house on Old Midland Trail in Bath County where she was going to care for a home-health patient. Police say Spillman pulled into the driveway behind Stevens' car, and they got into an argument before Spillman pulled a gun and shot Stevens then turned the gun on himself. Police say the two had previously lived together.