LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — An off-duty Metro police officer and his spouse shot and killed a person of their entrance yard in Boulder Metropolis after they stated they noticed the person strangling a lady. That lady instructed police she thought the person was going to kill her.
The capturing occurred simply after 9:30 a.m. on Friday, Jan. 24 within the 700 block of sixth Road in Boulder Metropolis, LVMPD Capt. Kurt McKenzie stated final week.
The division recognized the officer concerned as Cesar Ibarra, 48. Officer Ibarra has been employed with LVMPD since 2005 and is presently on paid administrative go away. Through the capturing, Ibarra fired two rounds. Police didn’t say what number of rounds his spouse fired.
Boulder Metropolis police recieved a name from an open line within the 800 block of sixth Road. Dispatchers might hear what gave the impression to be preventing within the background, Assistant Sheriff Jamie Prosser stated on Tuesday.
A girl stated her husband was within the entrance of their dwelling with a gun. Shortly after she stated that, pictures have been fired.
BCP officers arrived and rendered help to a person recognized as Jeremiah Boshard, 45. Medical personnel later pronounced him useless on the scene.
Officer Ibarra instructed BCP officers he heard a “commotion” within the yard of a neighbor’s home. Ibarra stated he noticed Boshard “trying to pull [a clothesline] out of the ground” earlier than he noticed Boshard “bodyslam” a lady onto the bottom, get on prime of her, and hit her within the face, Prosser stated.
The sufferer suffered a number of lacerations to her head, swelling to her face, reduce and bruised lips, and strangulation marks on her neck.
Ibarra then instructed his spouse to name police whereas he went into the yard to separate Boshard and the sufferer. Ibarra was in a position to get the sufferer to a chair in entrance of his home, however Boshard adopted Ibarra and the 2 started preventing, Prosser stated.
Boshard “slammed” Ibarra’s head right into a automobile within the driveway, Prosser stated. Boshard was additionally in a position to “incircle his arm around [Ibarra’s] neck” and Ibarra’s spouse grabbed a gun.
Ibarra was in a position to get free from Boshard and drew his gun, figuring out himself as a police officer, and gave “several” instructions for Boshard to get on the bottom and again away.
Regardless of instructions, Boshard moved towards the sufferer, inflicting each Ibarra and his spouse to fireside at him.
Boshard would have confronted the next fees if he had survived:
One depend of tried homicide
One depend of battery on a protected particular person
The sufferer instructed police that she believed Boshard was going to kill her if somebody didn’t intervene.
Ibarra was off-duty on the time of the capturing, however as a result of he recognized himself as a police officer and took motion as a police officer, the LVMPD is contemplating the incident an officer-involved capturing.
This was the LVMPD’s first officer-involved capturing in 2025. Presently in 2024, the division had no officer-involved shootings.
