Report: Second shooter at triple killing

Police also say suspect ran over two victims fleeing scene

Two gunmen exchanged fire at the scene of a triple homicide last weekend, one of whom is a friend of the slain family members, a police report shows.

North Las Vegas police had not disclosed the possibility of a second shooter before Friday. That detail was revealed after the arrest report was released Friday morning for the man suspected of firing the fatal shots that killed 52-year-old Susan Nash and her two adult children, Deonte’ Nash, 31, and Dejona’e Nash, 20.

Jose Easley, 41, a four-time felon, was arrested Wednesday evening on three counts of murder, attempted murder with a deadly weapon, battery with a deadly weapon, assault with a deadly weapon, prohibited possession of a firearm and carrying a concealed weapon without a permit, court records show.

According to the report, at least one family friend was with the Nashes during a confrontation with Easley. Police have not yet interviewed the second shooter, and it was not clear whether he would face charges in connection with the firefight, said North Las Vegas police spokesman Aaron Patty.

A total of 17 shots were fired at the scene from two weapons, the report shows.

The shooting happened about 8:40 p.m. Sunday in a parking lot near

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& Mack Center, Cox Pavilion and Mendenhall Center.

“This is a slap to the face to UNLV,” Hayes said. “You’re covering up UNLV with an overpass.”

The flyover would allow northbound drivers leaving the airport to bypass the intersection’s traffic signal and exit either northbound onto Swenson or westbound onto Tropicana. The westbound path would take traffic under Paradise Road, allowing drivers to skip a second stoplight.

Some 51,000 vehicles would use the flyover each day, County Public Works Director Denis Cederburg said. That’s about half the traffic that the intersection sees.

“I think it does a good job of addressing the congestion at the Tropicana-swenson intersection, and it saves time for the travelers,” Cederburg said before the meeting.

The project would cost about

$77 million, Cederburg said. That’s considerably less than the $200 million for the previous proposal to build a 3-mile expressway over existing roads to and from the airport.

Building underground roadways at the intersection without obscuring the view of UNLV would cost about $211 million, Cederburg said. In addition to excavating the area, existing utilities would need to be moved.

Cederburg said its imperative that something be done to address the busy intersection.

“If we do not build this project by 2040, the delay time at this intersection will more than double,” he said.

Despite Ceberburg’s urgency, the county appears to be pumping the brakes on the project.

Meana on Friday presented a letter from County Commission Chairman Steve Sisolak stating the county will not move forward with the project without more input from UNLV.

The college has hired CSL Consulting, Jabarrett Company and Kimley-horn and Associates to study the elevated roadway’s potential impact on its campus. Results are expected by the end of this month.

“We want to see and agree with improving traffic,” said

David Frommer, UNLV’S executive director for planning and construction. “We’d like to maintain the visibility of the campus, the event center, the marquees and the billboards that we have. And we want to make sure the campus access is not negatively impacted or diminished.”

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