LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Las Vegas
mother of four killed in a road rage shooting last week got in her car
with her adult son and his gun and drove around their neighborhood
looking for the assailant who ended up shooting her in a residential
cul-de-sac, police said Tuesday.
"Mrs. Meyers is scared, but she's upset," Steiber said, adding that the intent appeared to be "so they can find who frightened them on the roadway."
"I
would never say that anybody went looking for trouble," Steiber said
when asked to characterize Tammy Meyers' five-to-10 minute drive through
the neighborhood. He said she found, and for a time followed, the
vehicle she had apparently been looking for.
Tammy Meyers then drove home, Steiber said, where a vehicle described only as a four-door gray or silver sedan pulled up and someone inside opened fire.
"Unfortunately I cannot say what was in Tammy's mind," the police lieutenant said. "Tammy is the victim."
Steiber said the initial
road rage incident happened while Tammy Myers drove slowly home from a
school parking lot, where she had been teaching her teenage daughter to
drive. The girl didn't have a learner's permit.
Steiber said the
daughter told police a car sped up to them from behind and then pulled
alongside. The daughter reached over from the passenger seat and honked
the car horn at the car as it passed."She figured this person was speeding, and right or wrong, they needed to be corrected," Steiber said of the girl, who he said is 15. "She honked the horn."
Steiber pointed to a police artist's sketch of a man sought for questioning. He said the man is believed to be in his mid-20s with blond hair and blue or hazel eyes, and was wearing a V-neck T-shirt.
"All indications to us are that this unknown person fired first," Steiber said. He said Brandon Meyers returned fire.
Tammy Meyers was behind her son, and Steiber said police don't believe he was responsible for the fatal shot.
Tammy Meyers was wounded in the head and died Saturday after being taken off life support at University Medical Center. Friends planned a vigil Tuesday evening in the cul-de-sac in a middle-class neighborhood about 5 miles west of the Las Vegas Strip.
Husband
Robert Meyers, who was in Southern California at the time of the
shooting, said Friday that his son, Brandon Meyers, told him he believed
there were three people in the car and his shots with a 9mm handgun hit
the car at least once.
Steiber said no suspects have been identified or arrested.
Despite
earlier police accounts, Steiber said homicide detectives don't believe
the suspect's car and Meyers' green Buick Park Avenue sedan ever
collided, or that the suspects initially followed Meyers and her
daughter home.
No one in the
Meyers family called police until after the shooting, Steiber said, and
the gun that Brandon Meyers used was properly registered. VIDEO
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