Three men have been charged with murder in an ambush-style shooting that police say targeted witnesses to an armed robbery in southwest Las Vegas.
Brandon Jaymes Thomas McCoy, 18, Raymond Duncan, 19, and Tywann Robert Hoyer-Pitts, 18, are each facing 66 felonies and 28 gross misdemeanors in the Oct. 10 shooting of a man identified in a Metropolitan Police Department arrest report as Miguel Chavarria Garcia, 18.
Chavarria Garcia was shot in the head while riding in an Acura at 2:11 a.m. at the intersection of West Rochelle Avenue and South Durango Drive, police said. He died at a hospital days later, police said.
Police said in the arrest report that Chavarria Garcia and his friends went to a Halloween party that morning, then went to an In-N-Out Burger at 6530 S. Rainbow Blvd. when they noticed two armed men robbing a man of his gold chain.
One of the men in Chavarria Garcia’s group told police that when the assailants left, the group briefly followed the assailants’ vehicle. As they approached a nearby traffic light, a 2018 Nissan Kicks then pulled up alongside Chavarria Garcia’s group and gunmen opened fire on the Acura.
One of the bullets struck Chavarria Garcia in the face as h...