February 20, 2015

Updated: Road Rager Shoots Dead Las Vegas Mother of Four, Suspect Arrested, Knew Victim


Posted February 16, 2015 9:33 PM ET; Last updated February 20, 2015 3:28 PM ET


Tammy Meyers, Las Vegas Mother of Four

[From article]
The family of a woman killed in an apparent road rage shooting said they knew the suspect arrested for her death, but didn’t tell police that information until Thursday.
Erich Milton Nowsch Jr. was arrested Thursday afternoon after SWAT teams surrounded his home a block away from the residence of Tammy Meyers, the woman killed. The suspect’s mother owns the home and tipped off police, according to CBS affiliate KLAS-TV.
The 19-year-old Nowsch faces charges of murder, attempted murder and discharging a gun within a vehicle in connection with the Feb. 13 shooting.

http://lasvegas.cbslocal.com/2015/02/20/you-made-my-wife-look-like-an-animal-husband-of-road-rage-victim-snaps-at-media/

You Made My Wife Look Like An Animal': Husband Of Road Rage Victim Snaps At Media
February 20, 2015 4:45 AM

Published on Feb 20, 2015
After a two-hour standoff Thursday, Las Vegas police arrested a suspect in the apparent road rage shooting that left a mother of four dead. The case took a turn after it was revealed that the suspect and the mom knew each other. John Blackstone reports.



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[From article]
Kristal Meyers told police that her mother was driving them slowly home from the parking lot when a car sped up from behind, and that she reached over and honked their horn as it passed.
"She figured that this person was speeding, and needed to be corrected. Right or wrong, she beeped the horn," Steiber said.
The man then blocked their car, got out and said "some words" that "frightened Mrs. Meyers and her daughter, at which time Mrs. Meyers sped past him" and went home, Steiber said.
"Here's what happens when she gets home," the lieutenant continued. "Mrs. Meyers is scared, but she's upset. She tells her daughter to go wake up her son, 22, to wake him up and have him come outside and get in the car with her so later they can find who frightened them and her daughter out on the roadway."
"They left the house in search of that person," Steiber said, and found a grey or silver four-door sedan matching the description of the car in the earlier confrontation. She followed the "suspect vehicle," then they broke apart and she drove home. Then the vehicle came into their cul-de-sac.
"There was a volley of rounds fired from that vehicle," and Brandon Meyers "returned fire," the officer said. "When the firing was done, he found that his mother had been struck by gunfire. The suspect vehicle then backed out and sped away. That's what happened. Tammy is a victim."

https://news.yahoo.com/police-vegas-mom-son-searched-vehicle-shooting-082511921.html

Vegas police, family defend mom killed in road-rage shootout
By KEN RITTER
February 18, 2015

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[From article]
A 44-year-old woman who was teaching her teenage daughter to drive has died after being shot in the head in an apparent road-rage attack outside her Las Vegas home.
Tammy Meyers died after being taken off life support Saturday night at University Medical Center, family members said at a news conference. Police are still pursuing a suspect in her shooting.
The mother of four and former California nurse gave her 14-year-old daughter a driving lesson in a school parking lot and was driving back home when she almost crashed with another vehicle Thursday night, police said.
After an argument, Meyers drove home and asked her adult son for help as her daughter went inside the home.
The suspect vehicle appeared outside the home, and someone inside fired multiple shots, one of which struck Meyers, investigators said.
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The suspect was described as a 6-foot, 180-pound white man in his mid-20s with dirty blond hair in a spiked style. The suspect vehicle was described as a four-door gray or silver sedan with possible bullet holes and damage to the front driver's side of the vehicle.

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