Woman with 'fascination' for guns kills boyfriend during firearm photoshoot, talked of her love for 'shooting people in the face': Police

A 20-year-old pistillate successful Nevada who authorities accidental "had a fascination with firearms" is accused of shooting her fellow dormant portion helium was photographing her posing with a gun. Allysandra Blea was taken into custody past week and charged with 1 number of unfastened execution successful the slaying of 23-year-old Mark Gaughan, authorities announced.

According to a news release from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, officers responded to a telephone reporting a antheral being changeable successful the 1000 artifact of Nassau Drive astatine astir 4:47 a.m. connected Aug. 23.

Blea placed the 911 telephone and told the exigency dispatcher that it was an "accidental shooting," Las Vegas CBS affiliate KLAS reported.

Upon arriving astatine the address, archetypal responders recovered a antheral — aboriginal identified arsenic Gaughan — lying extracurricular connected the sidewalk and suffering from what appeared to beryllium a gunshot coiled to the neck.

Police rendered life-saving assistance until exigency aesculapian unit arrived and took over. Gaughan succumbed to the wounded and was pronounced dormant connected the scene. Homicide detectives took implicit the investigation.

"Detectives learned the unfortunate was taking pictures of 20-year-old Allysandra Blea posing with a firearm by a vehicle," the merchandise states. "During the photograph sprout the weapon discharged and the unfortunate was shot."

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Investigators reportedly recovered Polaroid photos astatine the scene, 1 of which depicted a 2nd pistillate (not Blea) holding a weapon arsenic Blea was "lying backmost [on the 2nd woman] holding a achromatic firearm that was pointed astatine her rima with her digit connected the trigger." A 2nd photograph allegedly besides showed Blea with her digit connected the trigger of the firearm.

The 2nd pistillate recounted what she remembered astir the incident.

"[She] recalled Allysandra situated connected her thigh with the firearm, arsenic Mark took a photograph with the flash going off," the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported, citing a probable origin affidavit. "[She] past witnessed different flash spell off, and Allysandra pointed the firearm astatine Mark. She stated that she did not spot Allysandra propulsion the trigger, but she heard the gunshot."

A 4th idiosyncratic sleeping successful the location astatine the clip told constabulary helium had antecedently worked astatine a weapon store and remembered "removing the mag and clearing the chamber" connected the firearm earlier that evening. Blea and the different pistillate suggested that Gaughan enactment the weapon backmost unneurotic portion they were getting changed anterior to taking the photos.

As the probe continued, constabulary reportedly recovered immoderate disturbing societal media posts from Blea astir her emotion of guns.

"Allysandra's identified relationship revealed that she had a fascination with firearms. In respective conversations with assorted accounts, determination was speech astir her emotion of shooting guns, owning guns, gathering her arsenal, and shooting radical successful the face," the affidavit reportedly said. "There were respective photographs of Allysandra holding assorted firearms (handguns, revolvers and rifles) successful antithetic poses to see the firearm pressed against her head, against stuffed animals' heads and shooting bottles astatine an chartless location."

Police besides said that successful 1 online comment, Blea wrote, "I privation I could sprout radical with existent guns and get distant with it."

Blea made her archetypal quality successful the Las Vegas Justice Court connected Tuesday. A justice denied her petition for bond.