LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A 20-year-old lady, who Las Vegas police say is fascinated with weapons, is accused of taking pictures and killing her boyfriend whereas posing with a firearm in the midst of the evening.
Allysandra Blea, 20, faces a cost of open homicide within the loss of life of Mark Gaughan, 23.
On Saturday, Aug. 23, round 5 a.m., police acquired a 911 name about an “accidental shooting” in a neighborhood close to Washington Avenue and Decatur Boulevard within the northwest valley.
Police realized Gaughan was taking photographs of two girls, together with Blea, who have been posing with a gun when the firearm discharged, putting Gaughan, paperwork mentioned. Gaughan died from a gunshot wound shortly afterward.
Police situated Polaroids, images that immediately develop, which included one photograph with one lady holding “a knife in her hand” and Blea “lying back [on the other woman], holding a black firearm that was pointed at her mouth with her finger on the trigger.” One other photograph confirmed Blea “holding the firearm in her left hand with her finger on the trigger.”
A witness described Gaughan as Blea’s boyfriend, paperwork mentioned, including Gaughan introduced a gun to a gathering earlier within the night and believed the chamber was empty.
Different witnesses, together with Blea, informed police the group was ingesting earlier than she and the opposite lady determined to take the photographs, paperwork mentioned.
“She stated it was an accident and admitted she has never taken any firearm safety courses and believed the firearm didn’t have a bullet in the chamber,” Blea informed detectives, in keeping with paperwork. “She was adamant that she did not intentionally kill Mark.”
Police reviewed Blea’s social media accounts, discovering “she had a fascination with firearms,” they mentioned.
“In several conversations with various accounts, there was talk about her love of shooting guns, owning guns, building her arsenal and shooting people in the face,” detectives mentioned. “There were several photographs of Allysandra holding various firearms (handguns, revolvers and rifles) in different poses to include the firearm pressed against her head, against stuffed animals’ heads and shooting bottles at an unknown location.”
Police additionally famous Blea “had a bullseye target tattooed on her chest.”
In a single dialog, Blea reportedly commented, “I wish I could shoot people with real guns and get away with it.”
The Clark County coroner’s workplace dominated Gaughan’s loss of life a murder.
Throughout her preliminary court docket look on Wednesday, Las Vegas Justice Courtroom Decide Suzan Baucum denied setting bail.
Blea was subsequent due in court docket on Sept. 2.
