LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Surveillance video 8 Information Now obtained exhibits two youngsters capturing right into a crowd of individuals after being denied entry right into a home celebration in Las Vegas.
The drive-by capturing killed 18-year-old Erick Roque and 20-year-old Efrian Guevara, Las Vegas Metro police stated. Each had been ready in line to get inside a celebration within the 3000 block of Kaibab Avenue close to East Owens Avenue and North Mojave Street.
Investigators arrested Noah Sierra and Jesus Martin-Guerrero for the capturing, in accordance with police. Each had been 16 years previous on the time and are suspected gang members.
Each are charged as adults and face 42 counts every, together with homicide, in accordance with police.
“It was a drive-by; they were planning to take as many lives as they could. And they took our sons’ lives,” Gabriela Nepomuceno, the mom of Guevara, informed 8 Information Now.
Lethal drive-by capturing unites 2 Las Vegas mothers by way of grief
Roque’s mom, Olivia Fabian, has a tough time understanding how the teenagers weren’t arrested earlier than the capturing.
“We think as a family that whatever happened to him should’ve never have happened. This kid should’ve been arrested a long time before this even happened,” Fabian stated.
In keeping with the LVMPD, a home celebration was promoted on social media for July 13, 2024.
Surveillance video captured Sierra and Martin-Guerrero strolling to the celebration with a bunch of associates. On the gate, a bodyguard stops them, and witnesses informed investigators the teenagers started arguing with the celebration host.
In keeping with grand jury testimony, a witness testified that “One of [the teens] said as they were leaving, ‘Watch what’s going to happen.’”
Investigators believed the teenagers conspired to shoot the celebration host.
Video exhibits Sierra stepping into the driving force’s seat of a stolen, white car. Martin-Guerrero hops within the entrance passenger seat. The car then stops in the midst of Kaibab Avenue
Surveillance cameras then captured the teenagers slowly driving as much as the entrance of the home, the place the celebration was happening. Gunfire was seen coming from the passenger facet window.
Martin-Guerrero fired 13 rounds into the group, killing two and injuring one other individual, in accordance with investigators.
Detectives had been in a position to pinpoint the place the teenagers went subsequent utilizing a mixture of cameras and cellphone knowledge.
After the capturing, the teenagers had been captured on surveillance video at a fuel station in East Las Vegas. They then went to a hangout spot close to the Clark County Wetlands, the place they posted an Instagram video.
Sierra, who’s accused of being the getaway driver, was sitting on prime of a car displaying gang indicators.
Somebody who was additionally denied entry informed investigators, all of them met up after the capturing, and the shooters stated, “We’re burnt out, that’s a whole murder case.”
Officers arrested the youngsters on July 18, 4 days after the lethal drive-by.
Martin-Guerrero and Sierra are anticipated in Clark County District Court docket on Wednesday, Oct. 15. The households of each victims stated they need the utmost sentence for the defendants and oppose any plea deal that strays away from that
