LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Metro police arrested two males accused of capturing and killing a girl in a automobile in Downtown Las Vegas.
Philip Sturdy, 18, and Charles Wright, 20, each face a cost of open homicide with a lethal weapon, information confirmed.
On Feb. 15 round 2:35 a.m., Metro police responded to a report of a girl shot within the 400 block of eleventh Avenue close to Lewis Avenue. When officers arrived they discovered a girl inside a automobile affected by obvious gunshot wounds.
The sufferer, later recognized as 29-year-old Hope Ritter, was pronounced lifeless on the scene.
Police stated the Ritter and a pal have been sitting within the automobile speaking when two males walked previous them. Moments later pictures have been fired and Ritter was struck. The Clark County Coroner’s workplace stated her explanation for loss of life was a number of gunshot wounds to the pinnacle.
Wright was already in police custody on the Clark County Detention Heart for unrelated fees and was re-booked for open homicide on Feb. 21.
Police arrested Sturdy in North Las Vegas on Feb. 21 and he was booked into CCDC.
Wright is scheduled to look in courtroom on Tuesday.
