The Nevada Highway Patrol and other law enforcement agencies were trying to apprehend a carjacking suspect Tuesday when the trooper was hit.
If the former North Las Vegas firefighter had rushed his wife to a nearby hospital instead of the faraway fire station, she could have survived, her parents said.
Christopher Candito, 33, was arrested Wednesday and booked at the Henderson Detention Center on a second-degree murder charge in the death of Tiffany Slatsky, 25, from February 2020.
Two men, 21 and 22 years old, respectively, have been identified as the victims of a shooting in North Las Vegas that also left seven people wounded.
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