Man 'collecting his things' from ex-girlfriend killed her moments after she told 911 he was 'threatening her with a firearm': Police

A 33-year-old antheral successful Nevada is accused of fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend wrong her apartment, aft allegedly threatening her with a firearm during a confrontation that prompted a frantic 911 telephone successful which the dispatcher overheard immoderate of the victim's last moments.

Jorge Garcia was taken into custody earlier this week and charged with 1 number of unfastened murder with the usage of a deadly limb successful the slaying of a pistillate successful her mid-30s, authorities announced.

According to a news release from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, officers astatine 3:28 p.m. connected Tuesday responded to a telephone astir a imaginable home disturbance astatine a residence located successful the 8900 artifact of South Durango Drive. Police said a pistillate called 911 and told the exigency dispatcher that her ex-boyfriend was astatine her flat picking up spot and threatening her with a gun. The telephone disconnected moments later.

Upon arriving astatine the address, archetypal responders made introduction into the flat and located an unresponsive pistillate suffering from aggregate evident gunshot wounds. Medical unit responded and pronounced her dormant astatine the scene. Police said the fishy had fled anterior to their arrival.

The department's homicide conception responded and, done the people of the investigation, identified Garcia arsenic the suspect. He was aboriginal located and taken into custody without incidental earlier being transported to the Clark County Detention Center and booked connected the execution charge.

The unfortunate and Garcia antecedently lived together, Las Vegas CBS affiliate KLAS reported. Just anterior to the shooting, Garcia had returned to the flat to cod his belongings erstwhile the concern turned into a deadly confrontation.

Investigators said a 911 relation stayed connected the enactment with the unfortunate arsenic she spoke to Garcia. The speech betwixt the erstwhile mates soon escalated into an statement and the enactment disconnected.

When archetypal responders knocked connected the flat door, they received nary answer. One of the officers past looked done a model and made a grisly discovery.

"Officers looked wrong the model and seen a pistillate lying unresponsive," LVMPD Lt. Robert Price said successful a quality briefing, according to section NBC affiliate KSNV. "Those officers instantly made introduction into that flat and observed a pistillate lying connected the crushed suffering from aggregate gunshot wounds."

Price reasserted investigators' content that Garcia gunned down his ex-girlfriend portion "collecting his things" from the flat they erstwhile shared.

"At immoderate constituent successful time, the fellow pulled retired a firearm, began threatening the female, and past changeable her," helium said.

Garcia aboriginal made his archetypal tribunal quality and remains successful custody astatine the Clark County Detention Center without bond.

The Clark County Coroner's Office is the bureau tasked with releasing the victim's identity, which volition hap aft adjacent of kin are notified, arsenic good arsenic the authoritative origin and mode of her death.

It was not instantly wide erstwhile Garcia was scheduled to marque his adjacent tribunal appearance.