A retired Denver Public Schools administrator was stabbed to death in her St. Louis home on Thursday. Authorities arrested her husband in connection with her death.
Marsha Gentry Pointer, 57, was an administrator at Manual High School until her retirement two years ago. She was principal of Leadership High School, one of three “schools within a school” at the troubled school before it closed in 2006.
Manual reorganized and reopened in 2007.
“She was an amazing person,” said Susan Kidd, who knew Pointer for nearly 40 years. “She really loved kids.”
Kidd said she had learned of her friend’s death from Pointer’s family.
According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper, James Pointer has been charged with first-degree murder.
James Pointer had moved out. Police spokeswoman Erica Van Ross said he went back to the home to confront his wife and then stabbed her.
He was arrested Friday morning. James Pointer is also being charged with armed criminal action and first-degree burglary.
Marsha Pointer moved from Denver to St. Louis to care for her ailing mother, who survives, along with a sister and two brothers.
Brian Malnes: 303-954-1638 or Bmalnes@denverpost.com
