Police: Suspect bragged about Vegas road-rage killing

Associated Press

LAS VEGAS

The teenage neighbor arrested in what has been described as the road-rage slaying of a Las Vegas mother boasted about the shooting and told friends that he emptied several clips from his semiautomatic handgun during the gunbattle, according to a police report released Friday.

The documents depict a fierce shootout last week involving 19-year-old Erich Milton Nowsch Jr., victim Tammy Meyers and her 22-year-old son.

Police said Nowsch bragged of firing more than 22 shots at them that night — first, a few blocks from their home, then in the cul-de-sac outside their house.

According to investigators, Nowsch portrayed the Meyers family as the aggressors, saying he saw someone in their car waving a gun out the window at him.

“Got those kids. They were after me, and I got them,” he was quoted as telling friends.

Nowsch remained jailed Friday on suspicion of murder, attempted murder and firing a gun from a vehicle. It was not clear if he had a lawyer.

Authorities continued to search for a second suspect, apparently the driver of the car in which Nowsch was said to be riding.

The case has been marked by conflicting and incomplete accounts from police and the Meyers family, giving rise to suspicions that it was not necessarily the random road-rage shooting it appeared to be at first.

“This has all the earmarks of something that is not road rage,” said Los Angeles defense attorney Mark Geragos, who is not involved in the case.

“There is a whole lot more to this that we just don’t know.”