Las Vegas man arrested on dozens of charges in connection with June shooting

A 30-year-old Las Vegas man is facing more than a dozen charges in connection with an automotive repair shop shooting last month, where customers, employees and at least one child took cover in a spray of bullets, court records show.

Shawn Eisenman was taken into custody at gunpoint July 7 and is being held without bail at the Clark County Detention Center.

He faces five counts of attempted murder with a deadly weapon, seven counts of assault with a deadly weapon, two counts of discharging a firearm at an occupied structure, one count of discharging a firearm from within a vehicle within a prohibited area, one charge of ownership or possession of a gun by a prohibited person and one charge of battery with a deadly weapon.

Eisenman is due in court July 27 for a preliminary hearing.

The shooting occurred about noon June 21 in the parking lot of Carburetor Exchange and Auto Repair by Ray, 4016 W. Charleston Blvd., according to arresting documents.

A customer who at least two witnesses identified in a photo lineup as Eisenman was at the shop for his car that day, which the shop owner had been working on for a few weeks, according to the documents. The two began arguing, then witnesses told police the customer punched the shop owner in the face.

After the punch, the customer ran through the parking lot to his vehicle. A few people in the shop — one of whom was the owner’s son — ran after the customer, and the group started scuffling.

The shop owner then intervened and told everyone to stop fighting. That’s when the customer got in his car and drove for a short distance.

Seconds later, before the customer’s car was out of the parking lot, the customer got back out of the car, grabbed a gun from his trunk and fired several bullets at the group of people and the shop, the documents read.

One person the customer fired at was a 5-year-old boy. At the time of the shooting, the customer also had a newborn in the back of his car, according to one witness statement.

After the shooting, in which no one was hit, the customer got back in his car and sped away.

The shop owner called police and followed the customer in his own car for a short distance, but the customer noticed he was being followed, pulled a U-turn and again fired his weapon, this time at the shop owner’s car.

The shop owner was still on the phone with police and was not shot. But a dispatcher told him to stop following the customer.

Police didn’t locate the customer that afternoon, but detectives walked the shop and documented the shooting scene.

At least one bullet penetrated a wall and went into an office, and another broke a window, feet above the child.

Later that night, the shop owner came home, parked his car and chatted with a friend standing on the passenger’s side of his car before the shop owner went inside. As they talked, the same customer from the shop shooting walked up to the shop owner’s driver’s-side window with a covered object, pointed the covered object at the shop owner and demanded the shop owner roll down the window.

Scared of being shot, the owner complied. After the conversation, the customer left and the shop owner again called police, the documents show.

On June 30, a pair of detectives sat outside an apartment where a car that matched the description of the car used in the customer shooting was parked. The car was registered to Eisenman’s girlfriend, and the couple had recently had a child.

About 11 p.m., a man who resembled the customer approached the car detectives were watching. The man surveyed the parking lot, “looking at the other vehicles to determine if they were police vehicles.”

Aware of what the man was doing, the detectives asked for backup over the radio as the man got in his car and drove slowly, still searching for police cars and creeping closer to the detectives’ undercover car.

A few minutes later, the man used his car to block in the detectives. Their cover blown, the detectives tried to take the man into custody, but there was a scuffle — as one detective opened the man’s car door and reached for the driver, the man backed up his car.

With the detective stuck between the driver and the driver’s side door, the driver put the car in drive, then accelerated out of the complex, striking the detective on his way out. Police were unable to locate and arrest the man that night.

On July 7, after police issued a warrant for Eisenman’s arrest, Eisenman ultimately was taken into custody in the southwest valley after hitting a citizen’s car, causing minor damage.

Court records show Eisenman previously was convicted of grand larceny auto, burglary and stop required on signal of a police officer in 2013.

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