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Details of a Fatal Shooting

Aired February 19, 2015 - 15:30   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN HOST: OK. So what we just heard was Sara Sidner shouting out the question to -- I'm assuming spokesperson for law enforcement there with Las Vegas PD and the question was do you believe --

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SARA SIDNER, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: And is the suspect that had the sketch that you guys put out?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is -- I can't answer any more questions other than simply that. That statement.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Now, I was hearing from the helicopter that they were calling out for Eric.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I don't have any more information other than what was begin in the statement.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: But right now we think that the person that's in that house right now is the shooter?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I have no information that I can release.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: But you just said that.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The person involved in the homicide of Mrs. Meyers.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A person involved in the homicide of Mrs. Meyers.

SIDNER: So not necessarily the shooter?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That's -- no more I will be able to give you guys at this time. Once more becomes available I will be able to get that to you.

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BALDWIN: All right. So just trying to piece this together, this is a fast moving story with lots of different parts. So Sara Sidner, our correspondent there, trying to get some of the questions answered. Listen. There are a lot of questions here as we've been watching the standoff taking place.

Again, it was underscore there that the tactical operation is under way, right? So we know that that means police are trying to communicate with this young person whose name we do not know. That his identity not known who is inside a house currently about a street away from Tammy Meyers' family.

The question and I don't want to step out on limb because I'm not entirely sure it sounded like -- guys, let me know when we can get Sara on the phone. This is sounded like Sara was asking and Nancy Grace or Danny Cevallos, to either of you, if you heard this better than me, it sounded like Sara Sidner was trying to ask if the individual in the home was in fact the suspect was the shooter.

NANCY GRACE, HLN ANCHOR: She did and he said yes, it is.

BALDWIN: She did and he said yes. He said yes. But then if you heard again another reporter asked to clarify and he said this individual was involved in the homicide of Mrs. Meyers. Are we sure that would be the shooter in the other car?

GRACE: He told Sara, yes, that this is the person that shot Mrs. Meyers. That's what I thought I heard him say.

BALDWIN: That's what I thought I heard had him say. Sara Sidner we've got you now. Can you tell me about that exchange you just had with that spokesperson?

SIDNER: I'm sorry, you're going to have to repeat yourself. A lot of chaos going on here.

BALDWIN: No problem. It's Brooke. Quick question, just tell me about the conversation you just had with the spokesperson for the pd.

SIDNER: Sure. Basically what we heard from the officer is that for certain the person that we have been watching, the person that is inside of that house where they are trying to get him to come out with his hands up, that person was involved in the homicide of Mrs. Meyers.

Now, they're not saying whether or not because I tried to clarify whether or not he was the shooter because, remember, there were three people in the car according to police when this shooting went down. But he said in very clear terms that he was involved in the homicide, it gives you some sense that it could be the shooter. He would not confirm that outright, but certainly the emotions are high here.

I can tell you one more thing, we did just see the mother of the man who was inside the police are hoping will come out with his hands up and that there won't be any kind of violence beyond just trying to put him in handcuffs. We saw the mother, she was extremely distraught. She said, that is my son in there. I am afraid for him. He is talking about hurting himself and she walked off with the officer.

So certainly you've got two families here, one who lost this mother of four who is destroyed by that, another who is concerned for the safety of her son. That family also extremely worried about what is going to happen here.

Still I want to let you know this is an active scene. We have no indication that there has been an arrest yet. We know there are a lot of officers who are surrounding it this house. They are in defensive positions they have been saying over and over again on the loudspeaker please come out of the house with your hands up. They are imploring him. They do not want this to turn violent. That is the scene here just one street away from where Tammy Meyers, the mother of four was shot and killed, killed and shot in the head and died on valentine's day -- Brooke.

BALDWIN: Three people there, Tammy Meyers, the daughter was in the car initially then her son and then obviously you have this other shooter and just by power of deduction and knowing that Tammy Meyers is no longer with us. And you have this mother who is fearing for her son harming himself. One would deduce that the person inside the home would be the person who pulled the trigger. But, again, police not being explicit on that.

Again, we're looking at these pictures, Sara Sidner. Can you just continue to paint the pictures of the scene here as we're watching members of Las Vegas PD. I understand SWAT is there as well, crouching around cars. How big of a presence is there?

SIDNER: Let me let you see because we've actually been backed up, we are expecting more and more officers to come on to the scene. Right now you can see all the flashing lights down there, and some of those cars look like undercover cars who have the lights who are put on inside and some of them are marked cars, a k-9 vehicle as well. We've seen them bring out what looks like shields as they were backing up away from the house telling the suspect to come out with his hands up.

And as you know, Brooke, just -- how we are about two blocks down so we're a block over and a block down from Tammy Meyers' house. We have a straight shot to where this activity is happening with police right now and this is a neighborhood by the way after talking to the neighbors here, this has been one of the quietest neighborhoods in Vegas.

I mean, they said this is the only second time they have ever seen police vehicles in this neighborhood. And a lot of people are concerned about their own safety just considering the shootout that happened a week ago.

What we can also tell you is that we did see Robert Meyers, the husband of Tammy Meyers, come out to this scene completely distraught, his eyes watering in tears, comes up to the officer, starts to talk to him, he is making accusations about the person in that house, very, very upset as you might imagine because right now this family is still trying to finalize this funeral arrangements for Tammy Meyers, mother of four.

This case just keeps changing. Every day there seems to be some new information that comes out about this case. The latest information, again, detectives telling us that there is a suspect inside that house and the person inside that house it seems is related to the homicide that left Tammy Meyers dead.

We have someone who has just come up here who is going to talk to us. Ma'am, what is your name?

MELISSA MORSE, NEIGHBOR: I'm Melissa Morse.

And what is your relationship to either Mr. Meyers or the young gentleman inside that house.

MORSE: I live right next door to Eric is his name.

SIDNER: So, we're not going to give out his name just because we don't know what the situation is, but we do know that police have said that he had something to do with this situation.

MORSE: That's what I'm hearing. They were yelling over the speaker telling him he needed to come out with his hands in the air, saying at least come to a window let us know you are you're OK. We don't want to hurt you we just want to talk to you. We need to discuss this with you. We know that you're a kid, with he know you're young but we need to talk to you about the situation. You're not going to be hurt please come talk to us.

They just kept going over and over we're outside your house, this is surrounded they were circling my house my dogs are going crazy.

BALDWIN: Did you know anything about him or who else lives in that house? Is he from here?

MORSE: I'm friend with his mother. So I mean, she's a sweet, sweet lady and I know she's been dealing with a lot with him. And she's got a little baby just a month old baby so to have all this going on with that it's got to be really rough.

I also -- I've spoken with Bob, too. So I mean, this is my neighborhood and these are -- are the people that I would hope to trust to let me know if something was going on and to help me and I just feel -- I feel so bad I'm right in the middle of the two houses and the two people and --

SIDNER: Is there any for you was there any concern that you were in danger when you started hearing all of this and seeing all the police out there?

MORSE: I'm not really scared of the neighbor. He doesn't really come off as scary to me. He's a little guy, he's like 5 foot and maybe 95 pounds. So -- .

SIDNER: Does he have spiky blond hair.

MORSE: No, he has brown hair and it's short but he does have light eyes. He's tiny. They said six foot-ish, he's like this tall. So I'm like -- I don't know how he's connected or whatnot, but I know he's not been like the most upstanding citizen, the police were here two days ago and arresting him, so there's been a lot going on over here.

SIDNER: You said that two days ago police were out here. Did you see him actually get arrested two days ago.

MORSE: Yes. I mean, I spoke with his mother, too, she was calling me because I wasn't home at the time she's like, I don't know who is at my door and it ended up being the police. And she's got the baby and she's like, people have been at my door all week, I guess the family of the Meyers had knocked on its door and was trying to ask questions earlier that day, so.

SIDNER: You're telling me that Robert Meyers the husband of at that Tammy came over to this house and knocked on the door.

MORSE: Yes, and spoke to Kathleen.

SIDNER: Do you have any idea what transpired in this that conversation?

MORSE: I don't. I don't.

SIDNER: Thank you so much for speaking to us. I appreciate it. And stay safe.

Well, you just heard that there, clearly there was police activity here before, we are now hearing from a neighbor that Robert Meyers who is Tammy Meyers' husband who was shot and killed went up to this house, tried to speak to the people in that house.

Now, let's make something clear here. She just said the description of this particular person that police are after is very different from the sketch that police put out which was six-foot tall, 180 pound male who was about 25 with spiky blond hair and light eyes. She's saying this is a very short gentleman with dark hair. And so, it doesn't really match. But, again, police have not said that this is the person necessarily who shot and killed Meyers. He may have had something to do with the homicide that is all they're giving us. So we want to make that very, very clear.

But certainly the situation here is involved in some way, does have something to do with what happened to Tammy Meyers, the mother of four who was shot in the head after a road rage incident. Brooke.

BALDWIN: Sara Sidner, thank you so much. Don't go too far. I've still got Tom Fuentes with me, former assistant director of the FBI.

And two questions for you, Tom Fuentes. Are you with me?

THOMAS FUENTES, CNN LAW ENFORCEMENT ANALYST (via phone): Yes, I'm here.

BALDWIN: OK. Tom, one, what do you make of the total discrepancy in the suspect's sketch versus the way this woman just described this individual? And, two, if you are trying to negotiate with this individual, if you are, you know, SWAT or law enforcement outside and you know this is a young man, does that change things?

FUENTES: Well, first of all, what changes things in my mind is the confusion over the description of the suspect and who did what, is it the person who actually did the shooting or maybe was along for the ride with the shooter and is essentially a witness. So I think it would make the police much more cautious to not shoot this individual, you mow, unless he started shooting at them because he may not be the right person.

So I think there's enough discrepancy in all of the events from the beginning of this thing there has been -- the story has been changing almost daily or hourly and I think that creates a huge problem for the police and how they handle it. If they know they've got this person in that house and they're trying to talk him out, I think they're going to stay with that as long as possible.

BALDWIN: Tom, I want to play some sound, this is from the -- I presume is a Las Vegas police department spokesperson moments ago, very brief statement he made, take a listen.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Just I can briefly tell you at this point in time we are currently in the tactical phase of taking a suspect who we believe to be involved in the homicide of Ms. Meyers into custody at this point.

As you can imagine this is a tactical situation, it is an active ongoing situation. There won't be much information that we'll be able to provide from this point forward. Once more information becomes available we will be able to release that to you.

So just -- again, right now, we are in the tactical phase of attempting to take a suspect into custody who we believe to be involved in the homicide of Mrs. Meyers.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE REPORTER: Is it the person you think -- you believe shot Mrs. Meyers?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It is. It is.

SIDNER: Can you repeat at that? Get a two shot. What we need to know is this the person you believe shot Mrs. Meyers?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is a person we believe involved in the homicide of Mrs. Meyers.

SIDNER: And is it the suspect that had the sketch that you get put out?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I can't answer any more questions other than simply that. That statement.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE REPORTER: Now, I was hearing from the helicopter that they were calling out for Eric. Is this the suspect?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I don't have any more information other than what was begin in the statement.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE REPORTER: Right now we think that the person that's in that house right now is the shooter?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I have no other information I can release.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE REPORTER: But you just said that again.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The person involved in the homicide of Mrs. Meyers.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE REPORTER: A person involved in the homicide of Mrs. Meyers.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Correct.

SIDNER: So not necessarily the shooter?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That's -- that's -- no more I will be able to give you guys at this time. Once more becomes available I will be able to give that to you.

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BALDWIN: All right. Tom, so obviously this is a tactical situation underway right now, he has to be very careful with the words he uses. But when you hear the way he answered those different questions, what did you think?

FUENTES: Well, he's saying that he believes that the person that did the shooting is in the house and they are tactical in that they have the house surrounded and they're trying to get that person to surrender, but, again, it doesn't say if other people are in that house and certainly the officers have to be cautious that they don't want to engage in any kind of a shootout with somebody not knowing who else is around or who else may be in that house or what the whole situation is.

And I think they also -- even though he did say he believes that's the shooter, I believe so they have the right person in that house. But that may turn out to not necessarily be true later in the investigation. So, again, they have to approach this very cautiously and deliberately as they go forward.

BALDWIN: All right. Tom Fuentes, thank you so much. Stay with me.

Again, tactical situation underway as they are trying to can a Joel this individual out of this home. Again, according to Sara's reporting seeing the mother very concerned that this young man, this individual inside this home who clearly is connected to this road rage incident, very worried that he will harm himself.

Nancy Grace, let me pivot to you just for a quick moment, but before I do we do have some sound, I know you talked to the husband, you talked to Mr. Meyers right before all of this started happening. But first just for the viewers if you have just tuned in, we have just seen the husband of a woman who was shot and killed am her front yard if the wake of this road rage incident, he has come out and in the midst of this standoff happening in his neighborhood. Here he was. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

ROBERT MEYERS, VICTIM'S HUSBAND: Are you happy? You made my wife look like an animal and my son. There's the animal, a block away. Are you happy?

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BALDWIN: Nancy Grace, agree, your heart just goes out to him. He lost his wife, his children lost a mother. What did he -- for people who are just tuning in, you just spoke with him. What did he share with you?

GRACE: Well, I was so taken aback. I talked to him 15, 20 minutes on the phone and he was describing to me what happened the night his wife was gunned down in the front yard in front of their son. I hang up the phone, go into the next -- out of my office into our studio and look up and there's the banner with you describing the standoff. It happened that quickly. Just ten minutes later it seemed like.

This is what he told me. First of all, he was in tears and he was angry at the same time on the phone with me about the way the media has portrayed his wife and his son. Treating them as he said like dogs, like animals. As if somehow they were the bad guys after the son sees his mother gunned down in the front yard, the daughter comes out and sees the mother's body out there for Pete's sake. And somehow they've gotten portrayed as the bad people.

And he was telling me that the mother is teaching the daughter how to drive at a school, a public school nearby, private property to parallel Park and Drive. They're getting ready to leave. They go out on the street and this car whizzes by them really fast. And the daughter, the little girl, leans over to the mom who is driving and toots the horn like, hey, you're going too fast. This particulars the guy off. He pulls over in front of them, gets out of his car, he's right in front of the mother, comes to the mom's window and starts yelling at her, this is a verbal explosion and he says, do you know what, I'm going to kill the two of you. This is according to the father.

He goes back to had his car, the mom pulls back and takes off, gets away, she's afraid at that time that he's polling her into the neighborhood. The father told me that they pull into their home, she says, get out, honey, I love you. Go in the house. The son comes out, gets in the car with her and they get the car away from the home. That they thought he was following them to the home, they wanted to get the car away from the home.

Next thing you know they see the car, at that time the perp shoots at them, they do not return fire even though her son has a gun. They get scared. They come back to the home and that's when the perp pulls up behind them and shoots the mother. That's what he just told me.

And obviously, he had a bead on who the shooter may be, you just heard the neighbor say the Meyers family has been there, knocking on the door wanting to talk to the people inside. BALDWIN: Right. And that's the question. If he, you know, also just

went over or tried going over we watched him as this whole thing was playing out trying to go over to this home where the standoff was happening, it makes you wonder -- I mean, obviously, in a lot of neighborhoods in this country you don't always know who your neighbors are even if you live, you know, a block away or a street away. It has to have this kind of sketch. When you hear the woman who was this neighbor talking to Sara Sidner that the differences in descriptions between who this individual is who's holding up himself in this son and the individual who was involved in the shooting sounds like two different people.

GRACE: I don't know about that. I was analyzing that because, remember, the eyewitness identification was made of someone in the car at night and as best as the girl could tell, the little girl, sitting in the passenger's seat looking through the window her mother's driver's window up at the guy. She's looking up at him and the son sees him inside a car at might. They see it's a white male with hazel or blue eyes with spiky hair and they said all along dirty blond, which is brown mixed with blond. So I don't know if it's off that much except for the height, which I understand because the perp was in a car. How do you know how tall he is in a car?

BALDWIN: Great point. I was wondering the same thing myself.

Danny Cevallos, I want you to weigh in.

DANNY CEVALLOS, CNN LEGAL ANALYST: One of the interesting things so far is that we know there were a number of people in the car where the shooter was. And I wonder if we'll ever know for sure who this shooter was because I wouldn't be surprised if when they find -- when and if they actually talk to somebody everyone is going to point the beginning finger at each other. So it would be interesting -- the son may have seen exactly who leaned out and shot, but, again, again, in the heat of the moment he may not be sure, eyewitness testimony can be a little unreliable.

So it will be interesting to me who among the people who are apprehended will point the finger at whom. It's not unusual for in cases like where there three co-defendants or three co-suspects for each of them to say the other guy did it and say I had no idea there was even a gun in the car. I have seen it a million times.

BALDWIN: Right. Danny Cevallos and Nancy Grace, stay with me.

I have another voice that wants to join this conversation. I got Andy Lamprey on the phone. He's a former sergeant with the LAPD SWAT team.

Sergeant, I mean, put yourself in these SWAT team shoes here. You have this tactical situation under way in which they are trying to apprehend or get this young man to come out of the home in a peaceful way. How do they do that? What are they doing?

ANDY LAMPREY, FORMER SERGEANT WITH THE LAPD SWAT TEAM (via phone): Well, it's really just a series of steps. First they will do their very best to determine whether or not in fact this suspect is inside the structure. And once they reach the conclusion that he is or at least there's a high probability that he is, then they need to begin their tactical plan which usually calls obviously to contain the structure so nobody can get out, certainly nobody can get in --

BALDWIN: Sergeant, forgive me. I want to come back to you. I've got to dip into this live interview happening with one of our affiliates in the neighborhood in Las Vegas.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: -- out of the house?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They were on the public address on one of the vehicles, calling by name asking him to come out of the house with his hands free. They just want to talk to him. They weren't going to hurt him. They weren't going to go away. They had the house surrounded. And I came out the front door, motioned -- the detectives motioned me to go back in the house. I was like OK. And then few minutes later they came and knocked on the door and said they were going to ask us to leave.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE REPORTER: That was about the time we all had to move down here.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Exactly.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE REPORTER: You know, Eric, you heard them over the PA saying they know he's home. Did you see him this morning at all?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No, I came home from work at 7:00 this morning and helped my roommate get her son ready for school, took him to school and soon as I was there, I came home and went to bed. I work nights.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE REPORTER: And we have all seen that sketch. I know you answered this earlier. But that sketch doesn't look like Eric to you?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Not to me. He's very small in stature. Not tall he is but he's not 6-foot. He might be 100 pounds soaking wet. So, we see him around the neighborhood. He runs with some of the lesser element around the neighborhood. But we never had any problems with him.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE REPORTER: (INAUDIBLE), the car they showed on surveillance video, have you ever seen him in a car like that?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He doesn't drive. Does not drive. Doesn't have a license. And according to his mom he doesn't drive.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE REPORTER: And then you guys, your roommate was the one that called his mom to let her know what was happening?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes. When I woke her up and, you know, we looked out the window, kind of watched for a minute, she called Kathleen on the phone and she said I'm on the way. And so she has been helping her out, calling her because people have been beating down her door ever since this happened. And she's got a one month old baby. So she has been beside herself, not getting any sleep. So my roommate has been calling her, helping her, offering anything she needs.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE REPORTER: We saw her get escorted --

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That's her car right there.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE REPORTER: Have you been able to talk to her yet since --?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We talked to her just briefly. My roommate asked her if she was OK. She's like no, I'm not. And that's it. She went on down with the detectives.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE REPORTER: Then I know when the officers came up to you, did they tell you how long you will be out of your house?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE REPORTER: And so, obviously it could be a long situation. I appreciate you talking to me, Brian. Thank you very much.

And again, we are still waiting for the armored SWAT vehicles to arrive here on scene. You take a look down there --

BALDWIN: All right. So you were listening to one of our affiliate reporters interviewing presumably one of the neighbors here.

And again, I'm scratching my head over this detail that just came out. According to this neighbor, this individual in this home who according to police was involved in the shooting, could be the shooter who doesn't have a license and doesn't drive. Obviously that doesn't mean someone can't get behind the wheel of a car but that's an added detail that's been thrown into this entire story that is unraveling live here on television.

I had Andy Lamprey, he is still with me, former sergeant with Los Angeles police department SWAT team.

And Andy, we were talking about the different steps in terms of police outside of this home trying to get this young man to come out safely, peacefully. Interestingly, listening to the neighbor, hearing police saying we want to talk to you, we don't want to hurt you, what else would they be trying to communicate?

LAMPREY: OK. So obviously they have started negotiations with the suspect and that will continue at some point until metro SWAT arrives, Las Vegas metro SWAT arrives. And at that time, I'm sure they will probably hand off to a negotiator from the SWAT team. They may even introduce into the equation a forensic psychologist who will try to make an assessment as best he or she can to help the SWAT team in their negotiations to get him to come out of the house.

Barring success in that regard, they have to make a decision what their next step would be. Ultimately, they are not going to go away so ultimately, they are going to have to make entry into the structure. Of course, the primary importance is who else may be inside the structure that could be subject to harm if able to make entry. And if this thing continues to unfold, time is on their side unless of course they determine that somebody is threatened by the suspect who may be in the house, then they would have to probably make some kind of emergency entry.

But barring any of that, time's on their side. They can afford to sit back. They have contained the structure. He's not going to go anywhere. And then the commanding officer, the officer in charge of the tactical operations will then make a decision ultimately what the next step is, which could probably be making entry into the structure and apprehending him that way.

BALDWIN: Before it would come to pass to have to do that, Mr. Lamprey, how long -- you're saying time is on their side. How long could a negotiation last? I imagine, you know, you want to keep this individual talking, communicating.

LAMPREY: That is absolutely correct. As you continue to keep that person talking, this is good, it not only fatigues him but feeds information to the tactical team. I have seen tactical operations go on for 12 hours, 24 hours, 36 hours. It really is in this tense category and these kind of things unfold and what happens at one point typically drives what the next step will be. So there is no way of telling just how long this may go on.

BALDWIN: You mentioned so SWAT will take over once SWAT arrives there in Las Vegas. And then you also mentioned a forensic psychologist. What kinds of conversations or questions would a forensic psychologist be asking to then perhaps alter the negotiations with this individual?

LAMPREY: Well, I can speak from our experience here in Los Angeles.

BALDWIN: Sure.

LAMPREY: The forensic psychologist did not actually take part in negotiations but they would listen to the conversation between the negotiator, the police department, the SWAT negotiator and the subject. And then based on what the subject, how he responds to the questions, the conversation, what tone it's taking, does it sound like they're making progress or does it sound like this guy is not going to give up and we are in for the long haul.

So many times, they have admitted as much, it's an educated guess because the human mind is capable of so many different thought processes and it's a real challenge to try to assess the way these guys are at mentally, psychologically.

BALDWIN: -- with LAPD SWAT, thank you so much.

Let's listen in here. Another news conference in this neighborhood in Las Vegas.

CAPT. CHRIS TOMAINO, LAS VEGAS METROPOLITAN POLICE DEPARTMENT ROBBERY/HOMICIDE BUREAU: Is everyone good?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think we're good. TOMAINO: Good afternoon. My name is Chris Tomaino. I'm the captain

of Las Vegas metropolitan police department robbery/homicide bureau.

And suspect has been taken into custody a few minutes ago, pursuant to the road rage homicide that occurred. Suspect is en route to headquarters to be interviewed. We still have a lot of investigative work to do as a result of where we're at in the investigation right now. We will provide you more information at a later time. But we do not want to jeopardize where we're at in the criminal investigation at this time.

Thank you very, very much for coming out. At this point we are trying to restore order to the neighborhood now that the tactical component of this operation is over. So that the folks that live in this neighborhood can get back to their lifestyle.

So that's where we're at right now this afternoon. We will not be answering any questions. Thank you.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE REPORTER: This is the suspect in the murder of Tammy Meyers?

TOMAINO: Yes, it is.

SIDNER: (INAUDIBLE)

TOMAINO: That's all we've got right now. Thank you so much.

BALDWIN: All right. So sounds like they got him. Who exactly "he" is and his specific connection, his involvement to this road rage incident, this homicide, that is yet to be determined. But we do now have official confirmation from Las Vegas metropolitan police department that they do have this individual apprehended here. We have been watching for the better part of this last hour this standoff playing out. SWAT teams, law enforcement and so they have had success in getting this individual, this young individual, according to neighbors, out of the home and into a patrol car and continuing this incredibly important investigation.

Thank you so much for being with me here. Stay with CNN as I'm sure we will continue to cover the story and much more.

I'm Brook Baldwin here in New York. Thank you much for being with me. Let's go to Washington now. "The LEAD" with Jake Tapper starts right now.

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