LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The household of a 22-year-old man shot and killed in a street rage incident in Las Vegas shared heart-wrenching testimony in courtroom Tuesday as the person accountable realized his destiny.
Clark County District Court docket Choose Carli Kierny sentenced Keyun Watts, 25, to 10 years in jail, the utmost penalty for voluntary manslaughter underneath Nevada regulation. He will likely be eligible for parole after serving 4 years.
‘So much pain’: Household of 22-year-old gunned down in Las Vegas attend courtroom listening to
Watts admitted to capturing Elvin Sejdinovic throughout a street rage encounter close to South Decatur and Sobb Avenue in October 2024. He was arrested almost a month later and claimed self-defense — a declare each the decide and Elvin’s household rejected.
“Not one bullet. Not two. Eight… fired into my son’s car like he wasn’t even human,” Elvin’s father, Alen Sejdinovic, stated. “That wasn’t fear. That was fury. That was intention.”
By means of tears and anger, Elvin’s mom described the ache of shedding her son in such a violent method.
“This man pulled out the gun and shot my son 8 times. Bullets in my baby’s body,” Elvin’s mom stated. “While his parents get to hug him, visit him, speak to him… I have to visit the cemetery. He didn’t just kill my son. He destroyed my life. He stole every birthday, every holiday. Every hug, every ‘I love you’—I will never hear again.”
Elvin’s household is now channeling their ache into motion, advocating for harder sentences for violent crimes, particularly these stemming from street rage.
“25 should be the minimum sentence — especially for murder,” Dzeneta Jenna Husic, a relative of Elvin, stated. “It should be more than that, but 25 should be the minimum regardless.”
Even because the sentence was handed down, the household expressed that no punishment might ever examine to the loss they now dwell with day by day.
“My beautiful boy is gone, and I am still here… forced to live in a world without him,” Elvin’s father stated.
“Nothing that happened in the courtroom, that’s going to happen in the future, is going to change that a loved one is not here,” Husic stated.
The household ended their testimony, reminding the courtroom, the decide, and the group what this case was actually about:
“Elvin mattered. His life mattered,” Elvin’s father stated.
