LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A person accused of murdering a bartender in a seemingly random capturing in Downtown Las Vegas was on probation for a violent housebreaking, based on paperwork the 8 Information Now Investigators obtained.
Phillip Sturdy, 18; and Charles Wright, 20, are accused of capturing and killing Hope Ritter, 29, in Downtown Las Vegas on Feb. 15, data mentioned.
Ritter, a single mom, labored as a bartender at Atomic Liquors on Fremont Avenue. The evening of the capturing, Ritter accomplished a shift on the bar after which stayed after her shift to have drinks with a patron, police mentioned.
Round 2 a.m., Ritter and the patron left the bar in Ritter’s automobile, police mentioned. Ritter parked her automobile in entrance of the particular person’s residence and sat within the automobile with it working and its headlights on.
Shortly afterward, two males walked previous the automobile and shot at it, police mentioned. Ritter suffered two gunshot wounds within the capturing and died from her accidents.
Detectives reviewed surveillance video from close by areas, discovering the 2 males at a number of companies within the space earlier than the capturing. Within the hour earlier than the capturing, the boys allegedly broke right into a automobile and tried to burglarize different automobiles.
Extra video surveillance confirmed the boys strolling within the space after which towards Ritter’s automobile earlier than the capturing, police mentioned. Video then confirmed the boys working away.
“No other people were seen on surveillance video near Ritter’s car immediately before or after the murder,” detectives mentioned.
Police later recognized the 2 males as Sturdy and Wright, they mentioned. Cellular phone knowledge from the suspects’ telephones additionally locations them collectively and within the space of the homicide.
No motive was listed in courtroom paperwork Tuesday as to why the boys allegedly killed Ritter nor did do police write who they believe pulled the set off. Each males remained in custody Tuesday with out bail.
In 2022, Clark County District Court docket Decide Monica Trujillo sentenced Wright, who was a teen on the time, to probation for stabbing a person a number of occasions throughout a theft, data mentioned. Wright had agreed to a plea deal. The stabbing sufferer survived.
In courtroom paperwork earlier than that sentencing, Wright’s legal professional requested Trujillo to provide his consumer “a chance.”
