The 19-year-old suspect jailed over the killing of a Las Vegas woman after a road-rage incident told a friend he had fired 22 rounds from a .45-caliber pistol and “got those kids” he believed were out to harm him, his mother and her baby, according to the police report released Friday.
Erich Martin Nowsch II was arrested Thursday for the shooting last week that mortally wounded 44-year-old Tammy Meyers after an encounter while heading home with her daughter from a late-night driving lesson at a nearby school parking lot. He faces charges of murder, attempted murder and discharging a firearm from a vehicle.
Meyers, a mother of four who lived a block from Nowsch, had frequently counseled the teen and given him food and money, her family said. The shooting occurred just days after the fifth anniversary of the suicide of Nowsch’s father.
The police report fills in details of what happened Feb. 12 after a silver car drove alongside Meyers and her 15-year-old daughter, Kristal, honked at it.
The car stopped sideways in front of them, and a 6-foot-tall male got out, saying, “I’m gonna come back for you and your daughter,” Kristal told investigators.
Meyers raced home, dropped off Kristal and roused her 22-year-old son, Brandon. He told his mother to call 911, but she said she would go look for the car alone if he didn’t come with her. He then grabbed his 9mm pistol and they drove off.
They soon spotted the car, described as a silver Audi, and began following it. The passenger then fired several shots at Meyers and her son, so they headed home.
The silver car followed Meyers and her son back to their cul-de-sac home and into the driveway, where the passenger again fired several rounds. Brandon Meyers told police he got out and fire three shots before the car backed out and fled.
He said he then noticed that his mother had been shot in the head. She died Feb. 14 after life support was disconnected.
Nowsch was in custody on an unrelated warrant Tuesday, and police questioned him about the shooting. He denied any involvement and was released. He was arrested at his home two days later after a two-hour standoff with police.
Hours after the shooting, Nowsch was quoted as telling friends, “Got those kids. They were after me, and I got them,” according to the police report.
Police are still seeking the driver of the Audi.
Melissa Mour, who lives next door to Nowsch, told the Associated Press she talked with him about the gunfire and screeching tires the day after.
“He was like, `Whoever did this is going to pay for it. I’ve know that family a long time,'” Mour said. “The way he spoke that day, it was like he liked them. It was like he was upset at whoever did it.”
She also told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that he often walked around the neighborhood with a gun.
“There aren’t many male figures in his life,” she said.
Other neighbors told the newspaper that after his father’s suicide, the teen’s personality changed. Considered a pleasant kid growing up, he became angry and confrontational. He got involved with drugs and dropped out of school.
Robert Selig, whose son was a close friend of Nowsch’s, said, “Erich has been going nuts on everybody” since his father’s death on Feb. 9. 2010.
Another neighbor, Sharon Provenzano, described Nowsch as “uncontrollable” and “hanging out with the wrong people, too.”
Nowsch is being held without bail and is scheduled to appear in court Monday.
Erich Martin Nowsch II was arrested Thursday for the shooting last week that mortally wounded 44-year-old Tammy Meyers after an encounter while heading home with her daughter from a late-night driving lesson at a nearby school parking lot. He faces charges of murder, attempted murder and discharging a firearm from a vehicle.
Meyers, a mother of four who lived a block from Nowsch, had frequently counseled the teen and given him food and money, her family said. The shooting occurred just days after the fifth anniversary of the suicide of Nowsch’s father.
The police report fills in details of what happened Feb. 12 after a silver car drove alongside Meyers and her 15-year-old daughter, Kristal, honked at it.
The car stopped sideways in front of them, and a 6-foot-tall male got out, saying, “I’m gonna come back for you and your daughter,” Kristal told investigators.
Meyers raced home, dropped off Kristal and roused her 22-year-old son, Brandon. He told his mother to call 911, but she said she would go look for the car alone if he didn’t come with her. He then grabbed his 9mm pistol and they drove off.
They soon spotted the car, described as a silver Audi, and began following it. The passenger then fired several shots at Meyers and her son, so they headed home.
The silver car followed Meyers and her son back to their cul-de-sac home and into the driveway, where the passenger again fired several rounds. Brandon Meyers told police he got out and fire three shots before the car backed out and fled.
He said he then noticed that his mother had been shot in the head. She died Feb. 14 after life support was disconnected.
Nowsch was in custody on an unrelated warrant Tuesday, and police questioned him about the shooting. He denied any involvement and was released. He was arrested at his home two days later after a two-hour standoff with police.
Hours after the shooting, Nowsch was quoted as telling friends, “Got those kids. They were after me, and I got them,” according to the police report.
Police are still seeking the driver of the Audi.
Melissa Mour, who lives next door to Nowsch, told the Associated Press she talked with him about the gunfire and screeching tires the day after.
“He was like, `Whoever did this is going to pay for it. I’ve know that family a long time,'” Mour said. “The way he spoke that day, it was like he liked them. It was like he was upset at whoever did it.”
She also told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that he often walked around the neighborhood with a gun.
“There aren’t many male figures in his life,” she said.
Other neighbors told the newspaper that after his father’s suicide, the teen’s personality changed. Considered a pleasant kid growing up, he became angry and confrontational. He got involved with drugs and dropped out of school.
Robert Selig, whose son was a close friend of Nowsch’s, said, “Erich has been going nuts on everybody” since his father’s death on Feb. 9. 2010.
Another neighbor, Sharon Provenzano, described Nowsch as “uncontrollable” and “hanging out with the wrong people, too.”
Nowsch is being held without bail and is scheduled to appear in court Monday.
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