Las Vegas Road-Rage Suspect Bragged About Killing: Police LAS VEGAS (AP) — The teenager arrested in what has been described as the road-rage slaying of a Las Vegas mother boasted about the shooting and told friends that he emptied several clips from his semi-automatic handgun during the gunbattle, according to a police report released Friday.
The documents shed new light on what police portrayed as a fierce shootout last week involving 19-year-old Erich Milton Nowsch Jr., victim Tammy Meyers and her 22-year-old son. Police said Nowsch boasted of firing more than 22 shots at them that night — once a few blocks from their home and again in the cul-de-sac outside the house.
"Got those kids. They were after me, and I got them," he was quoted as telling friends.
Nowsch remained jailed Friday on suspicion of murder, attempted murder and discharging a firearm from a vehicle. It wasn't clear if he had a lawyer.
Authorities continued to search for a second suspect, apparently the driver of the car in which Nowsch was said to be riding.
According to authorities, Meyers, 44, was out with her 15-year-old daughter on the night of Feb. 12, giving her driving lessons, when a car sped past them. The daughter honked, and the vehicle stopped, police said.
A person got out and warned Meyers: "I'm gonna come back for you and your daughter," according to the police report.
Police said the mother then sped home, dropped off her daughter and roused her son, Brandon, from bed. His mother told him to get in the car or she was going to go looking for the suspects alone, so he grabbed his 9 mm handgun and went along, police said.
The two found the vehicle and began following it when a passenger in the car began shooting at them, and Brandon Meyer returned fire, police said.
According to the police report, Nowsch told friends the gunbattle began after he saw someone in a green car in a school parking lot waving a gun out the window at him.
He said he opened fire from the passenger seat with a .45-caliber handgun, then followed the vehicle into a cul-de-sac, reloaded and fired 22 more shots outside the Meyers home, according to the report.
Brandon Meyers told police he fired three shots.
It wasn't immediately clear how authorities came to suspect Nowsch in the shooting, but the police report said he was questioned five days later while being held in juvenile custody on unrelated charges.
It turns out he and the Meyerses were neighbors who lived a block apart. Robert Meyers, the victim's husband, said his wife had taken a motherly interest in Nowsch following the suicide of his father five years ago, giving him food and money and telling him to "pull his pants up and be a man."
Neighbor Melissa Mour said she talked with Nowsch the day after the shooting and asked him about the screeching tires and gunfire she had heard the night before.
"He was like, 'Whoever did this is going to pay for it. I've know that family a long time,'" Mour said. "The way he spoke that day, it was like he liked them. It was like he was upset at whoever did it."
The case has been marked by conflicting and incomplete accounts from police and the Meyers family, giving rise to suspicions the case is not necessarily the random road-rage shooting it appeared to at first.
"This has all the earmarks of something that is not road rage," said Los Angeles defense attorney Geragos, who is not involved in the case. "There is a whole lot more to this that we just don't know."
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Associated Press writers Brian Skoloff and Alina Hartounian in Phoenix and researchers Barbara Sambriski and Rhonda Shafner in New York contributed to this report.
The documents shed new light on what police portrayed as a fierce shootout last week involving 19-year-old Erich Milton Nowsch Jr., victim Tammy Meyers and her 22-year-old son. Police said Nowsch boasted of firing more than 22 shots at them that night — once a few blocks from their home and again in the cul-de-sac outside the house.
"Got those kids. They were after me, and I got them," he was quoted as telling friends.
Nowsch remained jailed Friday on suspicion of murder, attempted murder and discharging a firearm from a vehicle. It wasn't clear if he had a lawyer.
Authorities continued to search for a second suspect, apparently the driver of the car in which Nowsch was said to be riding.
According to authorities, Meyers, 44, was out with her 15-year-old daughter on the night of Feb. 12, giving her driving lessons, when a car sped past them. The daughter honked, and the vehicle stopped, police said.
A person got out and warned Meyers: "I'm gonna come back for you and your daughter," according to the police report.
Police said the mother then sped home, dropped off her daughter and roused her son, Brandon, from bed. His mother told him to get in the car or she was going to go looking for the suspects alone, so he grabbed his 9 mm handgun and went along, police said.
The two found the vehicle and began following it when a passenger in the car began shooting at them, and Brandon Meyer returned fire, police said.
According to the police report, Nowsch told friends the gunbattle began after he saw someone in a green car in a school parking lot waving a gun out the window at him.
He said he opened fire from the passenger seat with a .45-caliber handgun, then followed the vehicle into a cul-de-sac, reloaded and fired 22 more shots outside the Meyers home, according to the report.
Brandon Meyers told police he fired three shots.
It wasn't immediately clear how authorities came to suspect Nowsch in the shooting, but the police report said he was questioned five days later while being held in juvenile custody on unrelated charges.
It turns out he and the Meyerses were neighbors who lived a block apart. Robert Meyers, the victim's husband, said his wife had taken a motherly interest in Nowsch following the suicide of his father five years ago, giving him food and money and telling him to "pull his pants up and be a man."
Neighbor Melissa Mour said she talked with Nowsch the day after the shooting and asked him about the screeching tires and gunfire she had heard the night before.
"He was like, 'Whoever did this is going to pay for it. I've know that family a long time,'" Mour said. "The way he spoke that day, it was like he liked them. It was like he was upset at whoever did it."
The case has been marked by conflicting and incomplete accounts from police and the Meyers family, giving rise to suspicions the case is not necessarily the random road-rage shooting it appeared to at first.
"This has all the earmarks of something that is not road rage," said Los Angeles defense attorney Geragos, who is not involved in the case. "There is a whole lot more to this that we just don't know."
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Associated Press writers Brian Skoloff and Alina Hartounian in Phoenix and researchers Barbara Sambriski and Rhonda Shafner in New York contributed to this report.
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