LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A number of folks watching the livestream of a double-homicide on the Las Vegas Strip referred to as 911 to report the taking pictures, in line with audio the 8 Information Now Investigators obtained Thursday.
Manuel Ruiz, 41, also called streamer “Sin City Manny,” faces two homicide costs after Las Vegas Metro police stated he gunned down Rodney Finley, 44; also called “Finny Da Legend,” and his spouse, Tanisha Finley, 43, close to the Bellagio Fountains on Sunday, June 8.
The confrontation was caught on video throughout a livestream. It stemmed from a beef between the YouTube streamers, police stated.
“I’m on YouTube live and I just saw somebody get shot,” one caller stated. “We saw the whole thing. I recorded it. I want to make the report that we see the person actually take out a gun and shoot somebody. We watch these two guys live all the time, and they happen to always have issues with each other.”
Manuel Ruiz seems in Las Vegas Justice Court docket on Thursday, June 12. (KLAS)
“I saw just watching a livestreaming on YouTube, and it looks like they were outside, across from the Paris… and there was a guy walking behind the camera, and he pulled out a gun and started shooting this guy,” another viewer told a dispatcher. “I guess the cops showed up you can hear sirens going. It’s still live on YouTube right now.”
“There’s a shooting in Las Vegas,” one caller informed a dispatcher as police arrived. “It’s right next to the water fountain show that they show.”
Ruiz later turned himself in to Henderson police and informed detectives he acted in self-defense.
Ruiz remained in custody Thursday with out bail. Prosecutors introduced Thursday that they could search the demise penalty towards him.
