Arizona murder suspect arrested at Tropicana and Strip

Las Vegas police arrested a man early Tuesday in connection with the shooting death of a woman in Arizona, police said.

Michael Wayne Hall, 41, was arrested as he was walking from the Motel 6 on Las Vegas Boulevard to the Luxor hotel, where his car was parked inside the garage, police said.

Hall, who went from a "person of interest" to a homicide suspect in the course of a half day, was arrested at 6 a.m. Tuesday. Police say he fired five rounds at Donella Clauschee, 28, at 7:45 a.m. Monday.

Avondale, Ariz., police Sgt. Brandon Busse, who serves as the city's public information officer, said Clauschee was getting into her car inside her garage when she was shot.

Her 4-year-old daughter was found unharmed in a car seat when the fire department responded.

Avondale investigators received a tip that Hall - Clauschee's boyfriend and the father of the child - was driving a red PT Cruiser, which police traced to the parking garage of the Luxor hotel.

Hall was arrested on Las Vegas Boulevard near Tropicana Avenue before sunrise.

Marcus Martin, a Las Vegas police spokesman, could not release any details behind Hall's arrest other than to say that "it was just another day in the office."

"People escape to Las Vegas all the time. This is the perfect town to come to if you commit a crime and you want to get lost," Martin said. "If you want to change your identity, come to Vegas. It happens so much we used to joke about it here."

In Avondale, a small town west of Phoenix with just under 80,000 people, homicides and hide-outs are rare, said Busse.

"This is a nice, quiet town," he said. "We don't get homicides every day, that's for sure."

Avondale police sent detectives to Las Vegas, Busse said.

They will bring Hall back as soon as they conclude their investigation, he said.