Las Vegas lawyers Joseph Houston II and Dennis Prince should never have been part of the child custody case that may have contributed to Monday’s tragic shooting, one of Houston’s acquaintances said.
Dennis Prince, a prominent Las Vegas civil attorney, was slain along with his fourth wife Ashley, 30, at his Summerlin law office.
Attorney Joseph Houston had learned that the cancer that spread to his bones had returned before he fatally shot Dennis Prince and his wife before turning the gun on himself.
Lawyers for Daniel Rodimer, the former congressional candidate charged with murder, want texts and phone calls between him and his wife to be ruled private.
The shooting deaths of five women at two unrelated scenes in North Las Vegas within a week in March helped more than double the number of homicides city police investigated during the first quarter of the year.
After he was wrongfully imprisoned for two decades, police say Christopher Tapp was killed in an altercation at a Las Vegas Strip casino.