On the morning of December 16, 2024, 63-year-old Kathy Jean Weiland was found dead of a gunshot wound inside a home on Dennis Street in the Johnson Lane area of Minden, Nevada. Deputies from the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office responded to a call about a man with a gunshot wound at about 11:07 a.m. and discovered Weiland deceased and 63-year-old homeowner Gregory Raymond Ward unconscious with an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Ward was taken to Renown Regional Medical Center in Reno in critical condition. Investigators treated the scene as a homicide, believing Ward had shot Weiland and then turned the gun on himself in an apparent suicide attempt. On December 20, while still hospitalized, Ward was arrested and charged with open murder and murder with a deadly weapon; he remained in hospital custody with no bail set and was to be transferred to the Douglas County Jail after release from medical care. Authorities said there was no further threat and identified everyone involved at the scene; no motive has been released.

Did anyone in the Minden area know the relationship between Weiland and Ward or have information about what led to the shooting?