LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – A Las Vegas man accused by police of driving round in a automobile together with his useless girlfriend for hours informed officers he shot her by chance.
Nonetheless, textual content messages 8 Information Now obtained present he threatened to kill her moments earlier than the capturing.
Las Vegas man says he ‘accidentally’ shot girlfriend in head earlier than driving with physique for nearly 2 hours: police
Julio Machado Vasquez, 24, was arrested on Jan. 19 after he led police on a high-speed automobile chase, which resulted in a two-car collision in east Las Vegas.
Contained in the automobile, Las Vegas Metro police discovered the physique of 24-year-old Gissell Selene Perez.
A Clark County Grand Jury indicted him final month with homicide with the usage of a lethal weapon, cease required on sign of police officer leading to bodily hurt, and two counts of reckless driving leading to substantial bodily hurt.
The textual content messages 8 Information Now obtained have been introduced as proof to a grand jury.
Machado Vasquez despatched a textual content message at round 7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 18, accusing Selene Perez of being a cheater and writing “hope being for the streets was worth dying over.”
When Perez responded with “yea, yea,” he informed her “Bet, dying it is.”
The back-and-forth over textual content lasted for nearly eight hours. Based on police, Perez and Machado Vasquez had been in an on-and-off relationship since graduating from Valley Excessive College.
He despatched extra threatening textual content messages that evening: “No survivors. Bet.”
She responded to him, “You’re goofy af if you think Ima listen to you.”
He then informed her “So everyone’s dying K…you mean your funeral.”
Her household beforehand described Perez as a form and real one who stood up for herself.
“She didn’t let anybody put her down in any type of way. She went through life hard. It’s just a tragedy how we lost her,” Gabriel Lopez, her uncle, stated.
Machado Vasquez continued threatening Perez into the early morning hours.
“Dying it is,” he wrote in a single message.
She responded, “Don’t say that.”
He stated, “…don’t be surprised when you walk out and get shot…find out if I’m playing.”
“Stop it Julio. OMG, I hate when you’re like this,” she stated.
He finally drove to the entrance of her dwelling round 2 a.m. on Jan. 19.
Her final message to him was “I’m going.”
A 9-1-1 name from Machado Vasquez’s buddy at round 8 a.m. revealed the tip of their relationship.
“I have reason to believe that his girlfriend may be suffering from a gunshot wound. And I’m not exactly sure where the address is. He’s telling me to come to him to help him, and absolutely [expletive] not,” the caller stated.
Based on Las Vegas Metro police, they’ve but to seek out the gun used within the capturing.
