 On August 27, 2012, Dallas Augustine shot her partner, Jessie McCaskill, before killing herself at their Phoenix, Arizona home in a murder-suicide.From 1993 to 1995, Augustine served one term in the Nevada Assembly.During the 1992 campaign, she was criticized for a campaign advertisement featuring a bad photograph of her African-American opponent (the same photograph, however, was used by her opponent in her own campaign literature).