Metro: Woman said she didn’t mean to hurt ex-husband

After telling a Metro officer she had shot her ex-husband early Thanksgiving morning, Michelle Young said she pulled the trigger when he told her "to go f*** myself," according to an arrest report released Monday.

Young later asked Las Vegas police if Henry Gregory Bankey, 58, was OK. "Are you serious?" she asked when told he was dead, according to the report. She also said she didn't mean to hurt him.

The couple's son called 911 at 4:13 a.m. to the home in the 8300 block of Fullmoon Maple Avenue, near the intersection of Sahara Avenue and Durango Drive, police said. He told police that his mother had shot his father and both were still in an upstairs room. The son's age wasn't available.

Arriving officers found Bankey's body sitting on a couch with a wound to the chest, the report said. A blanket covered his lower body.

About five minutes before the shooting, Young went to her son's room to talk to him about "her side" of a money argument she and Bankey had been having for several days, the report said. They agreed to talk about it in the morning and Young told her son she loved him.

Before calling 911, the son was able to take the gun from his mother, the report said. Arriving officers arrested Young, 53, with no further incident.

"Alright well the love of my life is dead and I did it … I didn't mean to, and he was messing around and it's not fun, and this is horrible," Young told a detective, adding that police would be happy to hear her admit to the slaying.

The interview ended when Young requested a lawyer, the report said.

She was booked on a murder charge at the Clark County Detention Center where she remained Monday. She was being held without bail.

Bankey was the president and CEO of a solar panel company, Summerlin Energy LLC, according to his LinkedIn profile.

In 2007, Bankey and six other people were indicted on 32 federal felony charges in Salt Lake City, including racketeering, bank fraud and money laundering, according to the U.S Justice Department. The charges carried a possible sentence of over 70 years.

Bankey pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor in 2012, court documents show.

In the seven-year, $150 million international scheme, the federal government alleged that several companies, including one linked to Bankey, facilitated gambling websites mask credit card transactions that would have been declined in the United States.

At least three other defendants' sentences were reduced to one year of probation, Deseret News reported in 2010.

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