Las Vegas Review-Journal (Sunday)
Slaying suspects took TV, not drugs
Three facing charges in 2018 robbery at house
Police say four people who planned a drug robbery that left a man dead made off with two cellphones and a television in the crime but missed $10,000 worth of oxycodone pills.
Three people have been charged in the Dec. 31, 2018, robbery and slaying of Onyedikachi Uhoumunna, 31, inside a home near Jones Boulevard and Hacienda Avenue.
Albert Chambers, 40, his son, Tayvion Chambers, 21, and Shirley Ann Besse, 36, face murder, robbery and other charges in the crime.
Arrest reports obtained this week allege that Besse and Albert Chambers dated for years and that Besse was immersed in the drug world. The reports say that Besse knew a man who lived at the home where the slaying occurred and that the home was used to sell oxycodone, marijuana and cocaine.
“To make extra money, Besse would fill prescriptions for pills and sell them. … On the evening of New Year’s Eve, at approximately 7 p.m., Besse went to the residence and purchased cocaine,” the arrest reports said.
Later that evening, Besse was looking to buy additional pills, a report said, so she called Albert
The two picked up Tayvion Chambers and another individual who is identified in the reports only as “suspect #3.”
The four headed to the victim’s residence with a plan for Tayvion Chambers to gain entry to the home, the reports said.
“Tayvion Chambers was going to knock on the door alone because he had already purchased marijuana from the residence and the occupants would recognize him,” the reports said. “Once Tayvion was inside, Albert Chambers and suspect #3 would storm in and rob the occupants.”
The reports said Besse parked the vehicle a few houses away from the victim’s residence and stayed in the car while the other three went to the targeted home.
“A few minutes later (they) ran back to the vehicle and Albert Chambers was holding a flat-screen television,” police said. “As they were driving away, Albert Chambers explained to Besse that the victim resisted and Tayvion Chambers shot the victim in the leg.”
After the robbery, another resident of the home found Uhoumunna mortally wounded.
houmunna was taken by the resident to Spring Valley Hospital Medical Center, then transported to University Medical Center, where he died.
Besse went home. A short time later, police said, Albert Chambers called her “and asked her to return … to retrieve the video surveillance recordings” from the home they had robbed. Besse went back to the home a day later to help two occupants she knew there move out.
“The interior of the residence was ransacked and there was a 9 mm cartridge case on the floor,” the reports said. “Besse believed the police had not discovered the scene yet so she picked up the cartridge case to prevent the police from locating it.”
Another individual, who is not identified in the report, returned to the residence, “smashed all the surveillance cameras and removed the DVR,” police said.
Police said in investigating the robbery, and in talking to a confidential witness, it appeared “the suspects apparently opened several kitchen cabinet doors but did not take approximately $10,000 worth of pills from the residence.”
Police obtained a thumb drive from an unidentified person containing video footage of the robbery and murder.
The drive showed Tayvion Chambers ringing the doorbell of the home just before the homicide.
After Chambers was admitted, Albert Chambers and a third man entered the home, the footage showed.
“Approximately three minutes later, suspects fled the residence and Albert Chambers was carrying a television,” the reports said.
A jury trial for Tayvion and Albert Chambers is scheduled for June 1. Besse was arrested and booked on a murder warrant this week.
She is scheduled for a bail hearing Monday in Las Vegas Justice Court.