Police: Suspect bragged about Las Vegas road-rage killing

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Police: Suspect bragged about Las Vegas road-rage killing
By KEN RITTER, Associated Press | February 20, 2015 | Updated: February 20, 2015 4:15pm

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The suspect in what has been described as a road-rage slaying boasted about the shooting and told friends that he emptied several clips from his semi-automatic handgun in the gunbattle that killed a Las Vegas mother of four, a police report released Friday says.

The report sheds new light on the violent encounter between 19-year-old suspect Erich Milton Nowsch Jr. and victim Tammy Meyers and her 22-year-old son Brandon Meyers last week. Police say Nowsch fired several shots at them on two occasions that night — once a few blocks away from their house and again in the cul-de-sac outside the home.

Police say he told friends after the shooting: "Got those kids. They were after me, and I got them."

The police report does not clarify a nagging question about the investigation: what role road rage played in the altercation.

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The police report says Nowsch told friends the altercation began after he saw someone in a green car in a nearby school parking lot waving a gun out the window.

Nowsch also told friends he fired 22 shots from his .45-caliber gun outside the Meyers home, according to the report.


Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Police-Teen-neighbor-suspected-in-Vegas-6091389.php

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

1. Great.....

a 19 year old with a .45............ what could go wrong?

[UpInArms]

2. huh?

new info?

The police report says Nowsch told friends the altercation began after he saw someone in a green car in a nearby school parking lot waving a gun out the window.

[hedgehog]

11. Just because he says someone was waving a gun out the window doesn't

mean that it's true. He may think he saw a gun, but haven't we heard this story all too often when a police officer and dead citizen are involved?

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

3. 'They were after me, and I got them'. See, he was just 'Standing his Ground'. nt

[christx30]

4. Looking less like self defense,

and looking more like someone with a grudge. If it's self defense, you want to say that you had no choice. So either this guy has the worst legal defense ever, or he's just a plain murderer.

[LisaL]

5. What does his legal defense have to do with it?

This story is what he allegedly told his friends, before he was arrested.

[christx30]

6. Because if he's claiming (as others have speculated)

self defense, what he told his friends shows that it's a lie. He's not acting like someone that was in fear for his life. He's looking like someone that was trying to kill that woman. She brought her son along with a gun as a precaution. There is a heck of a lot more to this story than what we've been told.
The husband is saying that the wife knew her killer beforehand. She may have known he was not a stable person. And from the murder, she was right to bring the weapon along. Too bad it didn't do her any good.

[LisaL]

7. We don't know what he is claiming.

Somebody speculating about what suspect might claim doesn't mean suspect is claiming it.

[christx30]

8. Understood.

But this will make self defense very hard to claim when he comes to trial.

[joshcryer]

10. What he told them could be used at the trial.

I'd be impressed if the defense attorney could get that thrown out.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

9. Tell it to the exercise yard. You can brag there for the rest of your misbegotten life. nt

[jpak]

12. Thank dog no Holy Guns were harmed!!!1111

yup

[hollowdweller]

13. How about it may have been some sort of drug deal gone wrong or something between the kids and him?

[alcibiades_mystery]

14. Gun nut shitheads in every direction in this story

Nothing to do but shake one's head at the generalized stupidity.

[leftyladyfrommo]

15. Wow! I don't even know what to say anymore.

I feel like I am just swirling down the rabbit hole.

[Coventina]

16. "They were after me, and I got them."

Is that really bragging?
If they came after him, again, isn't it "standing your ground"?

This story just keeps getting weirder and weirder.

Why did he refer to them as "kids" when the victim was a middle-aged woman?

This still does not add up, although it sounds like the police are trying to support the family's version of things.

The whole thing stinks to high heaven.