A fatal shooting looms over the Department R Clark County Family Court primary race.

Attorneys Marilyn Caston and Nick Petsas are trying to unseat Judge Bill Henderson, who was elected in 2008.

Henderson presided over the custody battle between Dylan Houston and Ashley Prince.

At an April 2024 deposition in that case, Houston’s father, attorney Joseph Houston, fatally shot Ashley Prince and her husband, Las Vegas attorney Dennis Prince, who was representing her. Joseph Houston then killed himself.

“Everybody who practices family law knows exactly where they were when they heard about that,” said Caston.…