LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The day after the capturing that took the lifetime of North Las Vegas police officer Jason Roscow, the neighborhood the place it occurred was quiet.
Some neighbors replayed the occasions of their heads, others rewatched it on movies taken on their telephones.
Movies like these taken by Roy Brown present the aftermath of the gunfire because the officer is handled by different responders. Brown, a minister who’s lived in the neighborhood for over 20 years, was about to step outdoors when photographs rang out.
“Just as I went to touch the doorknob to open the door, that’s when I heard all the pow pow pow pow pow pow,” Brown mentioned.
The noise of these gunshots is a uncommon sound within the neighborhood, in keeping with resident Craig Gomez.
“It’s a good neighborhood,” Craig mentioned. “It’s safe. We don’t have that. I think this was an isolated incident.”
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The incident was a trigger for concern and grief within the neighborhood.
“For something like that to happen, you know, everybody’s wondering, is it one of us? Because we are a family over here,” Brown mentioned.
Roscow handed away at UMC, with a motorcade escorting him to the Clark County coroner’s workplace.
“This incident happened right there and, it’s going to always be with me,” Brown mentioned. “That will stick in my mind, that officer, especially when I saw on the news that they said that he had passed away.”
Brown, hoping to discover a optimistic from the state of affairs, deliberate to make use of it as a solution to exhibit how valuable life is in his ministry.
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