Las Vegas man killed by wife during domestic altercation ID’d

The Clark County coroner’s office has identified a 48-year-old man who Las Vegas police said was fatally shot in self-defense by his wife Sunday night after he got into a fight with their daughter at an east valley apartment complex.

He was Roderick Gibson, 48, of Las Vegas, the coroner’s office said. Metropolitan Police Department homicide Lt. Ray Spencer said Thursday that Gibson’s wife shot him after he got into a fight with their daughter, who was at the home watching her young nephew.

Police received multiple 911 calls about 9 p.m. Sunday reporting the shooting at the apartment complex on the 1700 block of East Reno Avenue, near Tropicana Avenue and Spencer Street, Spencer said.

Spencer has previously said that during the fight between Gibson and his daughter, he began to “choke or strangle” the girl. The girl’s mother then attempted to break up the fight while holding a handgun.

“The altercation then went physical, and she ended up shooting the deceased,” Spencer said the night of the shooting.

The young child who was at the apartment was not harmed, Spencer said Thursday.

Gibson died of a gunshot wound to the head, and his death was ruled a homicide, the coroner’s office said. He died at the scene.

After interviewing the woman and the girl, detectives determined that the shooting was in self-defense, Spencer has said.

The case has been sent to the Clark County district attorney’s office for review, which is routine in possible self-defense killings.

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