Stepfather faces murder charge in stepson’s death

A man arrested Sunday night in the fatal shooting of his stepson is facing a first-degree murder charge, records show.

County booking logs and jail records identify the suspect as 72-year-old Jerry Thomas Winters. Winters was taken into custody Sunday night following the shooting inside a west Las Vegas Valley home on the 5100 block of Misty Morning Drive, near Torrey Pines Drive and Hacienda Avenue, Las Vegas police said.

Court records show that the Metropolitan Police Department on Tuesday found probable cause to book Winters on the murder charge. He remained held without bail Tuesday at the Clark County Detention Center.

Police have said that the victim’s mother, who also was the 911 caller, witnessed the fatal shooting. She told police she went downstairs about

7:30 p.m. Sunday after hearing the two men arguing. She told officers her son wrestled a baseball bat away from Winters before her husband pulled out a handgun and fired at least once, police said.