LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — Metro Police on Tuesday arrested a Las Vegas man who allegedly shot his own father to death during a violent domestic encounter in a normally quiet neighborhood.
Officers determined that the shooting took place in a gated community in the 9700 block of Horseback Circle near South Hualapai Way in Peccole Ranch early Tuesday morning.
Police say Isaac Velasquez, 28, was apprehended at about 1:30 a.m. Tuesday morning, after being found hiding in a yard with a gun in his hand.
Velasquez was booked into the Clark County Detention Center and faces a charge of open murder, according to a Metro news release.
At about 11:15 p.m. on Monday, police dispatch received an emergency call where arguing was heard, followed by what sounded like a gunshot. The call was from a residence in the 9700 block of Horseback Circle, inside the Peccole Ranch neighborhood on the Las Vegas Valley's west side.
Another 911 call soon came from a woman who identified herself as Velasquez's mother. She told dispatchers that her son had shot her husband.
Late Monday and into the early morning hours on Tuesday, a police search for Velasquez included the use of a helicopter.
That's what got the attention of resident Amy Gallant and her family.
"We just heard the helicopter going around and around, and we thought it would leave, but it just kept going around," Gallant said.
Police say Velasquez's mother was taken to a local hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening.
"It's kind of alarming," Gallant said. "It's alarming that we would have something going like this here."
The Clark County Coroner's Office, as of late Tuesday, had not released the manner of death and the identity of the victim.
Velasquez, according to court records, is scheduled for a first appearance Wednesday morning.
