He wasn’t an NBA ref for very long, but this is still very sad news…
A former NBA referee shot and killed himself in a suburban New Orleans hotel room on the same day his wife was found strangled at their Houston-area home last week, authorities said Wednesday.
A law-enforcement official in Montgomery County, Texas, said Troy Raymond, 46, was a “person of interest” in the death of his wife, Leslie Anderson Raymond, whose body was discovered last Thursday at their home in Spring.
Troy Raymond’s body was discovered at a hotel in Jefferson Parish. The coroner’s office said he shot himself in the head.
Tim Holifield, a Montgomery County constable, said that Raymond hasn’t been named a suspect in his 41-year-old wife’s killing and it’s premature to connect their deaths.
“At this point, to call him anything other than a person of interest post-mortem would be unfair and improper,” Holifield said.
Raymond was an NBA referee during the 2003-04 season and more recently has refereed college basketball games, including for the Sun Belt Conference.
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