Police say suspect left cellphone at scene of fatal park shooting

Police arrested a antheral successful a fatal shooting astatine a parkland successful cardinal Las Vegas aft investigators accidental helium near his cellphone astatine the shooting scene.

Clark County Detention Center records amusement that Hugo Gonzalez, 27, of Las Vegas has been booked astatine the jailhouse connected a azygous number of unfastened execution with a deadly weapon.

Las Vegas constabulary Lt. Ray Spencer confirmed connected Friday greeting that Gonzalez’s apprehension stems from the Monday nighttime shooting of James Edgar May, 30, astatine Charlie Frias Park, 5250 W. Tropicana Ave.

Police said May was changeable successful the cervix and chest. He died a abbreviated clip aboriginal astatine University Medical Center.

Police said successful an apprehension study for Gonzalez that May was killed arsenic helium fought with different antheral astatine the park. Witnesses told constabulary they saw May “behaving erratically and challenging radical to a fight” conscionable earlier May started to conflict with a man. The 2 tumbled to the ground, past repeated gunshots rang out.

Police wrote successful the study that they recovered Gonzalez’s cellphone astatine the shooting scene. They utilized the telephone to find Gonzalez, past arrested him. Police said Gonzalez matched the statement of the antheral May fought with. Gonzalez besides had aggregate scratches and abrasions connected his assemblage and a receipt for a caller cellphone successful his car.

“It was evident Hugo had precocious been successful a carnal altercation,” detectives wrote.

Gonzalez declined to reply questions from police.

The Clark County coroner’s bureau listed nary spot of residence for May.

Gonzalez was scheduled for an archetypal quality successful Las Vegas Justice Court aboriginal Friday. While jailhouse and tribunal records identified him arsenic Hugo Gonzalez, the apprehension study identified him arsenic Hugo Suchite-Gonzales.

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