Death in a Locked Room

SILVER SPRINGS, Nev.—(UPDATE) The deputies knocked. They called her name. They told her to come out, bring the child, make this easy, please. There was no answer.

The man outside the door had told them what was happening. He said her name was Haylie Baggett, thirty-eight, locked in the bedroom with her three-year-old son.

Domestic violence call. It was never good when a call like that turned into a door that wouldn’t open.

Minutes passed. No answer. The Lyon County Sheriff’s Office made the call to force entry.

Gunfire. The child is down.

The mother is down, dead, suicide-murder.

Deputies dropped to the floor, trying to save the child. Central Lyon County Firefighters arrived, working fast, but the wound was too much. Careflight took the little one to Reno. No use. The child died at the hospital.

The house on Spring Circle in Silver Springs went quiet after that. The deputies stood in the wreckage.

Investigators arrived. The man who made the report was still there.

Story written in the spent shell casings and the blood on the floor.

They said the case is still under investigation.

But no one is talking about the husband, Christopher. No one is saying where he was when his wife barricaded herself in that room.

Everyone is asking why.

A mother, her child, the closed door, a gun. The rest is silence.