NORTH LAS VEGAS -- A North Las Vegas woman has been killed in an apparent murder-suicide attempt on Saturday.

At about 4:47 p.m., police said they responded to a home in the 4900 block of Rancho Domingo Court regarding a domestic disturbance. They said they heard gunshots from inside the home and thought they were under fire. They said they took cover and then quickly realized the shooting was contained inside the home.

The officers said they then forced entry into the house, and they found a 38-year-old woman who apparently died of multiple gunshot wounds and a 46-year-old Texas man in critical condition from what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Officers said they safely recovered a 16-year-old girl who was barricaded inside a room in the home.

Police said the preliminary investigation indicates the alleged shooter and the woman had a previous relationship and a child in common, who was not the 16-year-old girl. They said the man confronted the woman at the front of the house as she arrived home, and the woman was almost immediately assaulted. They said there were indications shots were fired prior to officers arriving, but exactly when the woman was fatally shot is under investigation.

Officers said some witnesses mistook their forced entry as gunfire by the officers, but none of the officers used lethal force during the incident. One officer suffered a minor cut from a broken window.

The suspected gunman was last listed in critical condition at University Medical Center.