Shooting victim’s girlfriend dealing with double dose of heartache

Shea Ah Nee was already coping with one potential tragedy: an infant daughter hospitalized with sepsis. Then she got even more devastating news.

Her boyfriend, the baby’s father, had been shot dead.

Mohammed Robinson, 31, was shot and killed Sunday in a parking lot in the 3000 block of Las Vegas Boulevard North, police said. And while a potential suspect linked to his death had been arrested Friday, that man, Alonso Perez, 25, escaped police custody a few hours later.

As of Friday night, Perez had not been located.

“Due to the sensitive nature of this investigation, the actual facts of the interaction leading up to the shooting have not been released to the public yet,” North Las Vegas police spokesman Aaron Patty said.

Patty said the shooting was “absolutely tragic, and the family deserves for closure and justice to be done in this.”

Ah Nee said Robinson was with a co-worker at the time of the shooting; the two had gone to McDonald’s on their break.

After he was shot, Ah Nee said she was told Robinson had asked witnesses and police to call her, but she never had the chance to speak with him before he died.

Ah Nee said the loss of Robinson in her life is “devastating,” but she said she was grateful that he knew their infant daughter would soon be discharged from the hospital.

“He stayed with her every night,” Ah Nee said this week.

About two weeks before the shooting, Ah Nee had taken their 3-month-old daughter, Malia, to University Medical Center — the same hospital to which Robinson would later go for his gunshot wounds. What began as an infection had spread to the girl’s kidneys and eventually moved into her blood, becoming sepsis, Ah Nee said.

On Thursday, Malia was discharged from the hospital and returned home with Ah Nee, who said her daughter bears a strong resemblance to her father.

“She looks just like him; she has his smile,” Ah Nee said. “I feel his presence when I hold her and I see him when I look at her.”

While Ah Nee was able to celebrate her daughter’s homecoming this week, police still had not located the man who escaped after arrest Friday in connection with Robinson’s slaying.

Perez managed to twist out of handcuffs while left unattended in an interview room Friday at the North Las Vegas Police Department’s detective bureau, 3525 W. Cheyenne Ave., near Simmons Street, department spokesman Aaron Patty announced Friday.

Perez then stole a white 2016 Ford F-250 pickup truck with Nevada license plate 26C819 from a neighboring business and drove away. No one was injured.

Police described Perez as a Hispanic man, about 6-foot-3 and 200 pounds. He has black hair, brown eyes and a goatee, and he was last seen wearing dark shorts, black shoes and a white jersey with two blue stripes on each sleeve and the number 21 printed on the front and back.

Perez also has a 3-inch “Air Jordan” logo tattoo on the left side of his neck, police said, without saying what linked Perez to Robinson’s case.

Ah Nee declined comment about Perez’s escape Friday but said this week she had created a GoFundMe page to help pay for Robinson’s burial and Malia’s medical costs.

“I cry out for help and ask if everyone can come together in such a time of need,” she wrote on the website. As of late Friday, the page had raised about $12,000.

Looking forward, Ah Nee said she has to care for Malia and the five children the couple had from past relationships.

“I have to make the best out of what’s left of life.”

Contact Christian Bertolaccini at cbertolaccini@reviewjournal.com and 702-383-0381. Follow @bertolaccinic on Twitter.