Two men already in jail rebooked Monday in July 24 killing of Henderson man
Two men who were already in jail in connection with a home invasion near UNLV last month were rebooked Monday in connection with the separate July 24 killing of a 21-year-old Henderson man, officials said this week.
The home invasion happened early July 24 at 5108 Greene Lane, near East Reno Avenue and Maryland Parkway, dispatch logs show. A few hours later, the body of Antoine Toma Williams was found about 7 a.m. in the parking lot of the nearby Hampton Court Apartments, 3955 Swenson St., between East Twain Avenue and East Flamingo Road.
Las Vegas police identified Abdulkadir Mohamud and Jordan Price, both 20, as suspects in the homicide. Police said the Criminal Apprehension Team, a multijurisdictional task force, initially took the men into custody without incident Aug. 1 on the home invasion charges.
After the home invasion, Mohamud and Price were both facing three robbery with a deadly weapon charges, three kidnapping with a deadly weapon charges, a conspiracy to commit kidnapping charge and a burglary while in possession of a gun charge. As of Monday, they were still being held without bail at the Clark County Detention Center, facing additional charges of murder with a deadly weapon and conspiracy to commit murder.
The early July 24 home invasion happened at the same house where Mohamud, Price, Williams — the person killed — and one other man all showed up together for a party the night of July 23, according to an arrest report.
A few hours after the party ended, four partygoers — whom witnesses identified as Mohamud, Price, Williams and the other man — returned to the house, armed. Together, the partygoers tied up the home’s owners and took identification cards, clothing, gold jewelry, a handgun and one of the homeowner’s Army backpacks with his uniforms.
Later that morning, Williams was found dead in the nearby Hampton apartment complex with a shotgun blast to the head that left him “unidentifiable,” the report said. Inside one of his pockets was one of the robbed homeowner’s wallets.
“They only identified him with his fingerprints,” Williams’ mother, LaSaundra Dameron, 45, said. “I was just gonna go down there to the coroner and identify his body myself, and they said, ‘You can’t identify the body.’ His whole face was … ah,” she said, trailing off.
The mother said the family hosted a memorial service for Williams on Saturday. She said he was outgoing, family-oriented and loved children.
“He wasn’t perfect, of course; he made some bad choices hanging with some bad people,” she said, adding that he “never hurt anyone.”
“I don’t wish this on nobody’s children,” she said. “I don’t care who they are or what they do. No one has a right to take a person’s life like that. No one.”
She said Williams was friends with the men who were arrested in connection with his death, something she said her family “doesn’t understand.” Police said there was a heated argument before Williams was shot.
“It makes me feel a little better,” Dameron said, of both men being in custody. “But at the same time, it doesn’t change the fact that they took my son away from me, and the way that they did it.”
She added that detectives told her they were still looking for a third man — possibly the fourth man who went to the party with Williams, Mohamud and Price — in connection with her son’s death.
Mohamud and Price are due in court Wednesday morning.
Review-Journal writer Lawren Linehan contributed to this report. Contact Rachel Crosby at rcrosby@reviewjournal.com or 702-387-5290. Find @rachelacrosby on Twitter.