LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) – North Las Vegas police have released a final update on the shooting spree that killed five and left a teen critically injured on Monday night.
According to the update, detectives determined that the gunman, 47-year-old Eric Adams, was visiting his 45-year-old ex-girlfriend in a ground-floor apartment at Craig Ranch Villas. The two got into an argument, during which Adams produced a gun and shot two other women in the apartment, who were identified as his ex’s 24-year-old daughter Kayla Harris and Harris’ 22-year-old girlfriend.
An upstairs neighbor, identified as 20-year-old Christopher Munoz, who knew the women in the apartment, went downstairs to check after overhearing the argument. Police say, for unknown reasons, Adams shot Munoz inside the downstairs apartment.
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Munoz’s 59-year-old grandmother Damiana Munoz, his 40-year-old mother Amy Munoz, and 13-year-old sister, Olivia, remained in the upstairs apartment, though Adams would later enter their apartment and shoot those three family members as well.
As of Thursday morning, Olivia remains in critical condition.
Detectives learned later that there were two additional people out of sight in the apartment, who were not harmed. Police identified those two as additional family members, both in their late teens.
Adams would then take his ex-girlfriend hostage and drive away from the scene. The ex-girlfriend would escape from Adams during the early morning hours on Tuesday, and approach a Metro patrol officer on an unrelated traffic stop to share details of the shooting with him.
Other NLVPD officers arriving at the scene would locate the first victims at the scene in the upstairs apartment around 10 p.m. on Monday night. Shortly after, an LVMPD officer provided information from Adam’s ex-girlfriend to detectives, informing them of the three additional victims in the ground-floor apartment.
“The surviving victims and their families are being assisted by the North Las Vegas Police Department, victim advocates, and detectives, to help them through this difficult time,” police noted in the update.
NLVPD adds that this continues to be an ongoing investigation.
Anyone who may have information about this crime is urged to contact the North Las Vegas Police Department by phone at 702-633-9111. To remain anonymous, contact Crime Stoppers by phone at 702-385-5555, or online at crimestoppersofnv.com.
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