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Nevada couple shot, stabbed in Elko County domestic dispute

Elko, Nev. • A northeast Nevada couple involved in an apparent domestic dispute has been hospitalized after Elko County sheriff’s deputies say the woman was shot in the chest and her husband stabbed in the neck.

The Elko Daily Free Press reports Brian and Courtney Rowley were air-lifted to a Salt Lake City hospital Sunday following the dispute at a Spring Creek residence.

The newspaper reports they obtained a marriage license in Elko County in April 2012. It says Brian Rowley was arrested for battery constituting domestic violence in March 2007 but the charges were dismissed.