A Las Vegas doctor was murdered in her office Monday morning and Metro detectives are trying to figure out why she was killed.

The shooting happened around 9:30 a.m. at Dr. Edna Makabenta’s office near Charleston and Rancho. Police say the gunman, 80-year-old Eliseo Santos, walked into an exam room and shot Dr. Makabenta in the head and then turned the gun on himself. He later died at UMC.

Santos was a long-time patient of the victim. Witnesses say that Santos never went to a doctor’s appointment without his wife, but on Monday morning, he was alone. Police did make contact with his wife and say she is okay.

Dr. Makabenta was selling her business and planning to retire to join her husband in the Philippines. She has two sons and a daughter.

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