LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A girl routinely posted images and movies of herself with weapons earlier than police say she shot and killed her boyfriend throughout a photograph shoot, in response to paperwork and proof the 8 Information Now Investigators obtained.
Allysandra “Ally” Blea, 20, faces a cost of open homicide with a lethal weapon within the loss of life of Mark Gaughan, 23.
On Saturday, Aug. 23, round 5 a.m., police obtained a 911 name about an “accidental shooting” in a northwest valley neighborhood close to Washington Avenue and Decatur Boulevard.
Police realized Gaughan was taking images of two girls, together with Blea, who have been posing with a gun when the firearm discharged, placing Gaughan, paperwork mentioned. Gaughan died from a gunshot wound shortly afterward.
Allysandra Blea, 20, (proper) routinely posted images and movies of herself with weapons earlier than police say she shot and killed her boyfriend throughout a photograph shoot, in response to paperwork and proof the 8 Information Now Investigators obtained. (Clark County District Court docket/KLAS)
Final month, a Clark County grand jury voted to indict Blea on the homicide cost. Throughout grand jury hearings, prosecutors present jurors varied items of proof and query witnesses.
Images the 8 Information Now Investigators obtained present the Polaroids that prosecutors mentioned Gaughan took earlier than Blea allegedly shot him.
“I see the flash go off from Mark in front of me and I’m watching Mark the whole time,” a witness informed the grand jury. “I see the photo start printing out. And then Ally moves next to me and then there’s another flash goes off and it’s really loud this time and Mark and the camera fall.”
Murder detectives obtained warrants for Blea’s social media accounts, discovering what they known as “very problematic” and “very concerning” pictures, movies and conversations the place they mentioned Blea has “almost an obsession… with guns and wanting to shoot someone and get away with it,” paperwork mentioned.
A murder detective mentioned Allysandra Blea’s social media accounts confirmed “almost an obsession” with weapons “and wanting to shoot someone and get away with it,” in response to courtroom transcripts. (Clark County District Court docket/KLAS)
Proof introduced to the grand jury from these accounts features a photograph of Blea holding a rifle with the caption, “I like guns,” and a photograph of a girl prosecutors recognized as Blea with a goal tattooed on her chest.
In one other video, prosecutors mentioned Blea recorded a selfie video as she holds up a gun whereas driving. Blea then factors the gun at a passing bus, turns the digicam and smiles.
In one other dialog, Blea reportedly mentioned: “I had a dream I shot someone in the face last night with my revolver because he was pointing a Glock at me… But then I went to prison.”
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 consuming earlier than she and the opposite girl determined to take the images, 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 response to 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 an arrest report.
Police arrested Blea after looking by means of her social media accounts, in response to transcripts.
“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.”
Proof introduced to the grand jury from these accounts features a photograph of Blea holding a rifle with the caption, “I like guns,” and a photograph of a girl prosecutors recognized as Blea with a goal tattooed on her chest. (Clark County District Court docket/KLAS)
A buddy informed the grand jury that Blea was allegedly “disgusted” by how a lot Gaughan cherished her, including she didn’t essentially have the identical emotions towards him, in response to paperwork.
The witness additionally described an incident earlier within the evening of the capturing the place Blea allegedly hit Gaughan within the ribs with an empty Vodka bottle, paperwork mentioned.
“I remembered that the way she was talking about him and the way she hit him while he was defenseless and I just thought that that was — it was too inhumane, you know,” the witness mentioned.
Blea’s public defender filed paperwork asking a choose to assessment the grand jury proceedings and dismiss the case, which frequently occurs following a grand jury listening to.
Allysandra Blea, 20, seems in Las Vegas Justice Court docket. (KLAS)
“The grand jury is a secret proceeding where the prosecution decides what evidence to present,” Deputy Public Defender Robert O’Brien mentioned in a press release Tuesday. “Allysandra looks forward to presenting the full picture of what happened at a public trial. We believe the jury will see the truth, which is that this was nothing more than a terrible accident.”
Blea has declined two jail interview requests from the 8 Information Now Investigators. Her trial was scheduled to start in December.
A fundraiser to cowl Gaughan’s funeral prices raised greater than $8,500 as of Tuesday.
