Police arrest man in woman’s shooting near downtown Las Vegas
A man accused of shooting the mother of his child and leaving her for dead Sunday morning near downtown Las Vegas has been arrested.
Metropolitan Police Department said Eduardo Rozado-Tamayo fled the scene of the shooting with their 4-year-old daughter, Angie. Another six hours passed before he decided to drop her off at a family member’s house Lt. Dan McGrath said Sunday that she was safe and in police custody.
Rozado-Tamayo was stopped and arrested Tuesday, McGrath said late Tuesday.
Eduardo Rozado-Tamayo, 36, was booked into Clark County Detention Center on a count of attempted murder with a deadly weapon. He is being held without bail.
The targeted police search started just before 9:45 a.m. Sunday, when police said Angie’s parents were arguing on a sidewalk near the intersection of East Bonanza Way and North Veterans Memorial Drive, less than a block from the woman’s home. Police said the man fired multiple shots when an argument over custody of their daughter escalated.
“It’s another instance of domestic violence,” McGrath said. “It’s really disturbing and sad.”
The woman, who is being kept alive on life support at University Medical Center, was shot twice. Doctors who treated the woman called the gunshot wound to her head an “unsurvivable” injury.
No further information was immediately available Wednesday.
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