Police say a fired construction worker went on a rampage in a residential area of Las Vegas, Nevada, before being shot and killed by a resident.
The shocking altercation was captured on security cameras.
“He didn’t care who he was chasing.”
Las Vegas Police said officers responded to the scene around 6:30 p.m. Thursday after receiving a report of a man hitting another man with a vehicle. Lt. Jason Johanson of the Las Vegas Police Homicide Division said at a press conference Thursday that the man had recently been fired from his job at a construction site.
“The man who was struck by the vehicle was working on renovating a home in the 900 block of Dover Place. The person driving the SUV worked for him and what we’ve heard is that he was fired for coming to work when he was unable to do his job,” Johanson said.
The video shows a man in a black SUV chasing his employer, eventually backing into him and sending him crashing into a wall.
“He was driving east and west, forward and backward, trying to hit him,” Johanson said.
Neighbor Steven Bowman told KLAS-TV he came out of his house to see a man in a black SUV run over his employer and then target other people.
“I heard someone say, ‘He’s coming back,’ but I couldn’t move,” Bowman said. “He didn’t care who was coming after him.”
Another neighbor, named Anna Tilley, said she saw her employer get hit by a car and called out to her 27-year-old grandson to get a shotgun.
“He didn’t stop,” Tilley recalled. “I said, ‘Drop the gun.’ But he didn’t. He raised the gun and I was like, ‘Oh my God! Oh my God!'”
The video shows Tilley’s grandson firing a shotgun multiple times into the car, ending the attack. Police said the man was dead by the time they arrived on the scene.
Bowman was wounded in the leg by debris from the attack but was released from hospital several hours later. Police said he was hospitalized with “serious but non-life-threatening injuries.”
“It happened so suddenly, I can’t comprehend how quickly it happened,” Bowman said.
“The entire incident was captured on video and corroborates the witness accounts,” Johansson said. Added.
The shooter cooperated with police and was detained but released Friday.
Surveillance video of this horrific incident can be seen below. News Video KLAS posted it on YouTube.
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