Las Vegas father asked ‘erratic’ man if he was OK. Then he was killed by own gun

When an “erratic” man who wasn’t wearing pants or shoes came into the Las Vegas auto parts store, David Carcamo approached him to see if everything was OK, according to a Metropolitan Police Department arrest report.

Within moments, that same man would wrestle Carcamo’s open-carry 9 mm handgun from him and kill him with it, police said.

Carcamo, 21, of Las Vegas, was identified Tuesday by the Clark County coroner’s office as the person killed Friday afternoon at the AutoZone store at 1201 E. Charleston Boulevard.

Carcamo was the father of a 2-year-old girl, according to a GoFundMe account set up by his family.

Kyle Robert Capucci, 36, was arrested shortly after the shooting, which happened just after 4:45 p.m., near Maryland Parkway and Charleston Boulevard, about a block away. He was booked into the Clark County Detention Center on a charge of murder with use of a deadly weapon.

Struggle over a pistol

Capucci was dressed only in a “black hat, shirt, underwear” and with no shoes or socks when he entered the store, according to a Metro arrest report released Tuesday.

Carcamo, a one-time employee at the store who witnesses said was there to buy items to fix his car, “approached” Capucci with a store staffer, the report said.

“Kyle was approached by David and an AutoZone employee who asked if Kyle was OK,” the report stated.

They asked Capucci if he had a “problem because they believed (Capucci) may have been running from someone or something based on his demeanor.”

A store manager told police, the report said, that he saw Capucci “lunge toward (Carcamo’s) waistband” and that the two men struggled as both attempted to “take possession of an item,” which the manager later identified as a handgun.

Police said the manager then lost sight of the two as they struggled and “moved to the rear of the store.” He then saw the men “gripping the firearm with both of their hands while it was raised to the ceiling,” the report said.

He next heard seven or eight gunshots and saw Carcamo fall “to the ground.”

A Clark County medical examiner later determined Carcamo suffered gunshot wounds to his “face, neck, hand, arm, chest and back,” the arrest report said.

Another witness, who told police he arrived at the store with Carcamo, said Carcamo “often open carried a green and black Taurus” handgun.

Workers at the store were used to interacting with the “homeless population” in the area, another store employee told police. During the struggle for the gun, the weapon was pointed at the employee, which caused him to retreat “behind the sales counter” as the struggle continued, police said.

According to the report, investigators found empty cartridge cases for a 9 mm gun. They also found a Taurus 9 mm semiautomatic handgun and a handgun holster, among other items.

‘Blood on his arms and shirt’

Police found Capucci a block away from the AutoZone store with “blood on his arms and shirt,” according to the report. After he was arrested and taken to Metro’s headquarters to be interviewed, Capucci asked detectives, “That kid OK?”

Detectives noticed that Capucci “appeared to be in a mental health crisis” and that he said “someone was attempting to shoot him.” Capucci then told detectives that he shot Carcamo, saying that he “had to,” according to the arrest report.

In front of the AutoZone store Saturday, a small makeshift memorial had appeared. The memorial consisted of a few candles, a beer bottle and a vape, along with a piece of paper with the words “#Long Live David” written on it.

As of Tuesday afternoon, a GoFundMe for Carcamo’s family had raised over $5,000. It’s goal was listed as $28,000.

The page indicated that Carcamo was a single father and that he worked two jobs to support his daughter and his mother. When reached by phone Tuesday, the organizer of the GoFundMe declined to comment.

Capucci, according to court records, pleaded guilty to a felony attempted robbery charge and served time in prison following a disturbance at a Grouchy John’s coffee shop on South Maryland Parkway in February 2022. He also pleaded guilty to a drug trafficking charge from 2014 in Las Vegas, court records show.

Capucci is scheduled to appear before Judge Rebecca Saxe in Las Vegas Justice Court on Wednesday for an initial appearance in connection with the murder charge, according to online court records.

Contact Bryan Horwath at bhorwath@reviewjournal.com. Follow @BryanHorwath on X.