LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The person who police stated drove round together with his lifeless girlfriend in his passenger seat after he stated he “accidentally” shot her at the back of the pinnacle appeared in courtroom on Monday morning for the primary time.
Julio Machado Vasquez, 24, faces a cost of open homicide within the demise of 24-year-old Gissell Selene Perez. He additionally faces a cost of disobeying a peace officer, leading to lethal or bodily hurt.
He appeared earlier than a Clark County choose on Monday morning. The choose scheduled a preliminary listening to for March 3.
Machado Vasquez missed two different courtroom appearances on account of accidents he suffered throughout a automotive chase with police. Throughout his look on Monday, he was handcuffed to a wheelchair.
Julio Machado Vasquez, 24, faces a cost of open homicide within the demise of 24-year-old Gissell Selene Perez. (KLAS)
A good friend of Machado Vasquez’ advised police she obtained a name from him simply after 7:30 a.m. on Sunday, Jan. 19 and he advised her he had shot his girlfriend and was “driving around with her body near east Sahara, where the road ends,” in accordance with an arrest report.
She advised police Machado Vasquez appeared “panicked,” and was rambling concerning the 911 caller’s brother being in jail after taking pictures somebody, saying, “It happened to me, but it was an accident.”
Machado Vasquez advised her that he and Perez have been in his car after they began arguing. He had stated that Perez grabbed the gun earlier than Machado Vasquez grabbed it again and positioned it subsequent to his personal head, saying, “If you’re going to do it, do it right.”
Machado Vasquez claimed that he had the protection on the firearm and that he was “testing her.” He stated that the gun went off and that he believed that he shot her at the back of the pinnacle, the report acknowledged.
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Machado Vasquez requested the good friend to “meet him in the desert to help him get rid of her body,” but she asked Machado Vasquez to take Perez to a hospital instead. According to the report, he refused, saying, “They will see me on [camera].”
The good friend then referred to as 911.
After driving round with Perez’s physique for roughly an hour and a half, an LVMPD officer noticed Machado Vasquez’s blue Ford Mustang and tried to cease him. Nonetheless, he refused to cease and, after a pursuit, crashed into one other car, the report acknowledged.
Machado Vasquez continued to be held with out bail as of Monday morning.
