Police utilized 9mm pistols and.223-caliber tactical rifles against Bourne, who was equipped with a.40-caliber handgun. They rushed the vehicle and didn’t wait for SWAT or a negotiator to arrive.” “One second later, the car was lit up with … contagion firing. “We do know that (police) took the first shot,” the attorney said. “We’re not making a statement one way or another who shot Joseph,” Croteau said following the emotional four-hour proceeding at the Clark County Commission auditorium.Ĭroteau is managing a federal complaint filed in October in Las Vegas by the boy’s father, Iehab Hawatmeh, against Henderson police, departmental managers, and the seven officers who fired rounds that day. According to family attorney Roger Croteau, the boy’s 16-year-old sister was shot many times and is still paraplegic.įamily accuses Henderson police of murdering a 12-year-old kid during a hostage crisis However, “We believe Jason Bourne was responsible for the boy’s wounds,” Christopher said after summarizing results of autopsies of the four people who died that day.ĭianne Hawatmeh, 38, the kid’s mother, Veronica Muniz, 33, of Las Vegas, and the boy, Joseph Hawatmeh, were all killed. The hearing, presided over by a former state Assembly member and presented by a county prosecutor, did not resolve whether one or more of the 27 shots fired by police struck the boy sitting in the passenger seat next to Bourne - who continued talking with a 911 dispatcher until gunfire erupted and was heard exclaiming “Yeah,” as officers opened a second volley of fire. The hearing on Jason Neo Bourne, a 38-year-old who changed his name because he loved a movie character, revealed that Bourne shot the youngster numerous times, including in the head, after police opened fire on the boy’s family’s Cadillac Escalade.Īccording to testimony submitted by Henderson police Detective Richard Christopher, the lone investigator questioned at the hearing labeled a public fact-finding inquiry, Bourne fired seven bullets with a.40 caliber pistol while sitting in the driver’s seat. (702 Times, NV Globe) – Authorities released the findings of an inquiry into a police shooting on Election Day 2020 that killed a guy in a car after the man killed two people, injured a teenage girl, and abducted a 12-year-old child who died when he was shot as police approached.
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