LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A person faces costs of homicide and tried homicide after a Sunday taking pictures that left his spouse lifeless and his son with a gunshot wound to the leg at an condominium within the northwest Las Vegas valley.
Christopher Wooden, 53, is accused within the shootings and stays within the Clark County Detention Heart with out bail. He’s scheduled to seem in court docket on Monday, Oct. 20, at 8 a.m.
A Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Division report describes an argument that erupted in gunfire, and a shootout between father and son on the condominium within the 1600 block of Burning Wooden Lane, alongside Vegas Drive between Rainbow Boulevard and Torrey Pines Drive.
Because the spouse, Tia Jurago, and Wooden argued on Sunday afternoon a couple of enterprise they owned collectively, the son determined to keep away from the scenario, saying he was going to work early. In line with the son’s statements, his mom was asking Wooden for the keys to a truck so she may get her belongings out of the condominium. The son meant to assist his mom get her issues, in line with the report.
The son instructed police he went to his bed room and retrieved a black Glock 19 in a holster and tucked it in his waistband. The son’s title was redacted from the police report and his age was not disclosed.
The argument escalated and as he got here out of the bed room into the hallway, and Wooden was blocking their approach out. The son heard his mom say she was going to name 911.
Virtually instantly, Wooden stated, “Oh yeah,” and, in line with the police report, “produced his silver handgun, racked it, and shot Tia once or twice while she was at about arms reach from him.”
He then turned the gun on his son as he backed into his room, taking pictures his son within the leg. As he fell, the son took out his gun and returned hearth till Wooden fell to the bottom within the bed room.
The son remembered dropping his gun in some unspecified time in the future after which operating out on the lookout for assist. He instructed police if he hadn’t used his gun to defend himself, he believed he would have been killed.
Police discovered video from cameras within the space that corroborated the occasions described by the son.
When police arrived, they discovered Jurago unresponsive with two gunshot wounds to the chest, close to the rear of her proper shoulder. Additionally they discovered Wooden on a bed room ground with a number of gunshot wounds.
Jurado was declared lifeless when she was positioned in an ambulance, however Wooden and the son have been taken to College Medical Heart. Wooden was initially listed as unstable in essential situation, and each he and the son underwent surgical procedure.
Jail data present Wooden is now in CCDC.
