- Houston Chronicle
- 9 Jun 2014
Ethan Miller / Getty Images Las Vegas police officers gather after two officers were fatally shot by two assailants at a pizza restaurant. The two suspects also killed a third person at a nearby Walmart before killing themselves.
LAS VEGAS — Two suspects shot and killed two police officers in an ambush at a Las Vegas restaurant Sunday before fatally shooting a third person and killing themselves inside a nearby Walmart, authorities said.
A man and woman walked into CiCi’s Pizza and shot at point-blank range officers Alyn Beck, 42, and Igor Soldo, 32, who were eating lunch, Las Vegas police officials said.
One of the officers was able to fire back before he died, but it’s unclear if he hit the suspects, Sheriff Doug Gillespie of the Las Vegas Metro Police Department said at a news conference Sunday afternoon.
One of the suspects yelled, “This is a revolution,” but the motive for the shooting remains unclear, Las Vegas police spokesman Larry Hadfield said.
“We don’t know anything about the suspects yet,” he added.
After shooting the officers, the suspects fled to the Walmart across the street, where they fatally shot a person inside the front door and exchanged gunfire with police before killing themselves in an apparent murder-suicide pact, police said. The female suspect shot the male suspect before killing herself, Gillespie said.
The slain civilian’s identity hasn’t been confirmed, and the suspects’ names haven’t been released.
“It’s a tragic day,” Gillespie said. “But we still have a community to police, and we still have a community to protect. We will be out there doing it with our heads held high, but with an emptiness in our hearts.”
Pauline Pacheco was shopping at Walmart when she saw the armed man and grabbed her father to escape, KLAS-TV reported.
“We saw when the man was walking, hewas shouting, yelling bad words, and suddenly he had a gun,” she told the station. “It was terrible. That man was crazy.”
Clark County Assistant Sheriff Kevin McMahill said the male suspect yelled “everyone get out” before shooting inside the Walmart.
Walmart employees and shoppers were taken to a nearby clothing store to be interviewed by police.
Police said the investigation is “very complex” because it involves more than 1,000 witnesses.
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