Hundreds of unsealed court documents reveal the contentious custody battle between Ashley Prince and Dennis Houston leading up to a fatal shooting in April.
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Officers were diverted from another call and sped down West Charleston Boulevard to the April 8 shooting scene at the Prince Law Group in City National Bank building.
Katherine Houston wrote a concerned letter to her son Dylan around the time of his divorce from Ashley Prince, records show.
A judge unsealed hundreds of documents and an assemblage of videos from a contentious custody battle linked to a shooting that left three dead.
When Lisa Rasmussen pulled into the parking lot of Prince Law Group, she knew the deposition would be intense. She had no idea it would turn deadly.
Attorney Dylan Houston can continue to have supervised access to his children, but he must give up his guns, a Family Court judge ruled during a contentious custody hearing Wednesday afternoon.
Prince, 57, and his wife Ashley Prince, 30, were shot and killed at a Summerlin law office by lawyer Joseph Houston, 77, who then turned the gun on himself.
People in the building during the shooting deaths of Dennis Prince, wife Ashley and suicide of the shooter, Joseph Houston II, begged 911 operators for police to arrive.
The parents of a woman slain at a Summerlin law firm said their daughter was living in fear of her ex-husband while fighting him in court for custody of their two children.
Ashley Prince, 30, was fighting for sole custody of her two oldest kids when she was killed by attorney Joseph Houston during a deposition at a Summerlin law office on April 8.
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.
Ethics rules allow lawyers to represent relatives, but many say it’s a bad idea in bitter custody battles like the one that left three people dead in Summerlin.
The Clark County coroner’s office released the causes of death for attorney Dennis Prince and his new wife, Ashley.
