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Intense Body Cam Footage Of Las Vegas Officer Shooting At Suspect Through Windshield
Las Vegas police on Monday released body camera footage of two men weaving through traffic and shooting at officers during a violent chase downtown that left one of the men dead and the other wounded Wednesday morning. Fidel Miranda, 22, and Rene Nunez, 30, are suspects in the fatal shooting of 25-year-old Thomas Romero, who was shot multiple times in the chest at a car wash at 1402 N. Eastern Ave.
Romero died that morning at University Medical Center.
While investigating that shooting, police found a 2000 Ford Expedition that matched the description of the suspects' car just after 9:30 a.m., near near 29th Street and Constantine Avenue, Assistant Sheriff Tim Kelly said at a briefing Monday. Then the SUV sped off.
Miranda and Nunez swerved around cars and raced through oncoming traffic — along Mojave Road, Charleston Boulevard and Eastern Avenue — while firing at police, Kelly said. They fired 34 rounds in five volleys during the pursuit, he said, while officers fired 31 shots.
The footage shows officer William Umana, 43, following the suspects, yelling “shots fired, shots fired” into his radio.
Romero died that morning at University Medical Center.
While investigating that shooting, police found a 2000 Ford Expedition that matched the description of the suspects' car just after 9:30 a.m., near near 29th Street and Constantine Avenue, Assistant Sheriff Tim Kelly said at a briefing Monday. Then the SUV sped off.
Miranda and Nunez swerved around cars and raced through oncoming traffic — along Mojave Road, Charleston Boulevard and Eastern Avenue — while firing at police, Kelly said. They fired 34 rounds in five volleys during the pursuit, he said, while officers fired 31 shots.
The footage shows officer William Umana, 43, following the suspects, yelling “shots fired, shots fired” into his radio.
