Deadly dispute started with look, report says
A confrontation that began after a man looked at a woman at a central valley gasoline station Saturday led to the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Christopher Isaac Colbert, according to a Las Vegas police report obtained Tuesday.
According to the arrest report for shooting suspect Gabriel Manuel Lucero, Colbert's friend, Jimmy Pope, looked at a woman who got out of Lucero's sport utility vehicle at a Terrible Herbst gas station at Martin Luther King Boulevard and Bonanza Road. The look prompted Lucero to get out of his GMC Yukon and confront Pope.
Pope was at the gas station about 3 a.m. with Colbert, and a third man, Keonte Jones.
"Pope admitted to reaching inside his waistband pretending he had a gun, which was followed by the driver of the Yukon going to the vehicle and getting a handgun," the report stated.
The altercation was caught on the gas station's surveillance video. The video showed the Yukon headed west on Bonanza. It was followed 17 seconds later by the Nissan NX2000.
According to the report, the NX2000 was approaching the intersection of Bonanza and Tonopah Drive when the driver of the Yukon stepped out of the vehicle and fired several rounds at the NX2000. Colbert was struck twice and died at University Medical Center.
Witnesses identified Lucero as the shooter. Police identified Lucero as the shooter from video and his Nevada driver's license picture.
On Monday morning, police detained Lucero, who was in the Yukon shown on the surveillance video.
In an interview with detectives, Lucero denied he was the shooter and said the shooter was another passenger in the Yukon. When police told Lucero witnesses had identified him as the shooter, he asked for a lawyer and stopped cooperating with police. He was then arrested.
Lucero was booked into the Clark County Detention Center on charges of murder with a deadly weapon, discharging a firearm at or into a structure or vehicle, and two counts of attempted murder.
