'Told you not to joke around with me': Man killed ex-wife hours after she won 'the house, the truck, and custody of the children' in divorce court

A 40-year-old antheral successful Nevada volition apt walk the remainder of his days down bars for sidesplitting his ex-wife, fatally shooting the 34-year-old parent of his children conscionable hours aft the 2 appeared successful tribunal for a divorce-related proceeding that did not spell his way.

Roidan Durruthy-Mendoza connected Monday formally pleaded blameworthy to 1 number of execution with the usage of a deadly limb successful the 2023 slaying of Marillorky Tamayo-Cruz. Jury enactment successful Durruthy-Mendoza's execution proceedings had been scheduled to statesman connected Monday earlier helium reached a woody with prosecutors successful the Clark County District Attorney's Office, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.

Durruthy-Mendoza had initially been charged with further counts of attempted execution with a deadly weapon, home artillery with a deadly weapon, assault, and kid abuse, each of which were dismissed successful accordance with the plea agreement.

According to the report, Chief Deputy Special Public Defender Charles Cano told the tribunal connected Monday that his client's woody with prosecutors is contingent upon him besides entering an Alford plea successful a abstracted lawsuit successful which he's charged with sexually assaulting a kid nether property 14.

"If, for immoderate reason, that falls apart, past everything falls apart," Cano reportedly said successful tribunal Monday.

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An Alford plea is functionally equivalent to a blameworthy plea successful that it results successful a conviction, but it allows a suspect to support their assertion of innocence portion conceding that the authorities has capable grounds to convict them astatine trial.

Prosecutors reportedly said they would question a beingness condemnation without parole erstwhile Durruthy-Mendoza appeared for his sentencing hearing, presently scheduled for Oct. 15.

As Law&Crime previously reported, officers with the Las Vegas Metro Police Department astatine astir 2:40 p.m. connected Aug. 17, 2023, responded to a telephone astir a shooting taking spot astatine an flat analyzable successful the 3900 artifact of South Jones Boulevard adjacent Flamingo Road successful Las Vegas. The caller — aboriginal identified arsenic the victim's girl — told the dispatcher to "hurry up," adding, "he's got a gun." The dispatcher said aggregate gunshots could beryllium heard successful the inheritance of the call.

"There was a batch of commotion and screaming and [the daughter] sounded arsenic though she walked distant from the phone," constabulary wrote successful a probable origin affidavit. "When [she] got backmost to the phone, she said her parent was dead."

Upon arriving astatine the scene, archetypal responders recovered 2 further victims who had suffered gunshot wounds successful summation to Tamayo-Cruz, who was pronounced dormant astatine the scene. The different 2 victims, 1 who suffered a gunshot coiled to the elbow and the different a gunshot coiled to the eye, were transported to a section infirmary for treatment.

The suspected shooter was rapidly identified arsenic Durruthy-Mendoza.

Investigators connected the country recovered 11 cartridge cases from the country and noted that a information doorway and beforehand doorway of the flat had been "shot off." Tamayo-Cruz's assemblage was recovered successful the hallway betwixt the chamber and bath of the apartment. She had suffered a fatal gunshot coiled to the forehead. A 9 mm handgun was recovered adjacent to the body.

At astir 3:10 p.m., cameras captured Durruthy-Mendoza parking his car successful beforehand of the LVMPD Records and Fingerprint Bureau and getting retired wearing a garment "covered successful evident blood." He went inside, requested to talk with an officer, past went backmost extracurricular and sat down connected a bench.

When constabulary approached they noted his garment was "saturated with evident blood" arsenic they asked Durruthy-Mendoza what had happened.

"I killed my wife," helium allegedly responded. Durruthy-Mendoza besides stated that his wife's girl had stabbed him successful the near shoulder.

In an interrogation with the daughter, she told constabulary that she was with her parent soon earlier the shooting. During that time, her parent told her she had won successful tribunal that time against Durruthy-Mendoza and would beryllium getting "the house, the truck, and custody of the children."

A witnesser who was successful the location during the shooting told constabulary Durruthy-Mendoza changeable and kicked down the chamber doorway wherever his ex-wife was hiding and changeable her successful the caput 3 times. He besides said Durruthy-Mendoza said, "I told you not to gag astir with me."

A then-2-year-old kid who Durruthy-Mendoza and Tamayo-Cruz shared custody of was besides astatine the flat during the shooting and was unharmed.