LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A judge denied bail Saturday for the man accused of killing an 11-year-old boy during a freeway road-rage shooting on a Las Vegas-area freeway.
Tyler Matthew Johns, 22, appeared virtually in Henderson Justice Court on Saturday morning on multiple felony charges, including open murder with a deadly weapon, discharging a firearm from or within a structure or vehicle within a prohibited area, and discharging a firearm into an occupied structure, according to court records.
Boy, 11, killed in Las Vegas road-rage freeway shooting; 22-year-old suspect arrested
The shooting happened around 7:30 a.m. Friday on the 215 Beltway westbound near Gibson Road. Police said two vehicles became involved in a road-rage exchange.
“They began jockeying for positions, trying to pass each other on the congested freeway. One vehicle tried to pass the other vehicle on the shoulder, and at this time, both occupants of the vehicles rolled down their windows and got into a verbal exchange,” Henderson Police Chief Reggie Rader said…