Report: Man shot, killed while sitting in traffic knew attacker

The man shot dead while waiting in traffic last month knew his attacker, according to the suspect’s arrest report.

While investigating the death of 48-year-old Michael McDaniels, who was killed in traffic in broad daylight Dec. 16, Las Vegas police homicide detectives learned that he was involved in an ongoing dispute with 50-year-old Ralph Fuller “over drug-related monies owed to McDaniels,” according to Fuller’s arrest report.

Earlier that morning, McDaniels had driven to the home of Fuller’s mother in North Las Vegas and fired a handgun into the home, according to the arrest report.

Police found that McDaniels had exchanged several phone calls with Fuller in the minutes leading up to his 9 a.m. slaying while sitting in his truck at Martin Luther King Boulevard and Owens Avenue.

The arrest report states that Fuller used a car that had been reported stolen to drive up behind McDaniels in the intersection. The report states that Fuller then walked up to McDaniels’ truck and shot him several times.

The car belonged to North Las Vegas man Bryan Lucas, the boyfriend of Fuller’s daughter. Lucas told investigators that his girlfriend told him to report the car stolen about 9 a.m., which was about the time of the slaying, according to the arrest report.

Lucas told police that he knew the car was not actually stolen when he reported it to North Las Vegas police that morning.

Fuller has been arrested on a charge of murder with a deadly weapon and is being held without bail in the Clark County Detention Center.