NLV barricade situation ends with suspect dead

A man was found dead early Thursday after a domestic shooting led to a barricade inside a North Las Vegas home.

Police responded about 11 p.m. to reports of a shooting at a home on the 5600 block of Tropic Breeze Street, near Ann Road and Bruce Street, North Las Vegas police spokesman Aaron Patty said.

A woman was shot at the home during a domestic dispute, Patty said. She was hospitalized with serious injuries but is expected to survive.

Police believed that a man, the shooter, was barricaded inside the home, Patty said. SWAT members responded, and when they entered the home about 2 a.m., they found the man dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. Springs Road at Las Vegas Boulevard South. Lee’s SUV crashed into a vehicle driven by Donneka Harris, a 32-year-old mother of two, which sent both vehicles slamming into three more cars, police said.

Lee’s SUV had been speeding away from another driver she sideswiped east of the deadly wreck, police said.

Harris, 32, died at University Medical Center.

Lee, who authorities said has drunkendriving convictions in California, pleaded guilty last month to one count of DUI resulting in death and one count of failure to stop required on signal of a police officer resulting in death. District Judge Douglas Herndon also ordered Lee to use a ignition-interlock breathalyzer on her vehicle for at least three years after she is released from prison. time, a green 2002 Toyota Tacoma pickup driving east on Sahara Avenue veered out of the left traffic lane and hit the woman, the Metropolitan Police Department said Tuesday.

The Las Vegas woman was taken to Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center, where she was declared dead. She died from blunt force injuries, the coroner’s office said Thursday.

Police said they suspect the 58-yearold woman driving the truck attempted to drive away after hitting SantanaMendoza but was stopped by several witnesses about 500 feet from the scene.

An arrest report and jail records identified the woman as Darcy Autenrieth. According to the arrest report, Autenrieth said her name was Darcy Cooper when police arrived at the scene around 7:25 a.m. Tuesday. She told officers she had about four drinks, and she failed three field sobriety tests, the report stated.

Autenrieth was booked on Tuesday into the Clark County Detention Center, where she remained Thursday facing a charge of DUI resulting in death. Bail was set at $75,000 with the condition of house arrest should she post bail, court records show.