The devasted stepdad of the 11-year-old boy shot dead in a road-rage attack screamed “my kid is dead” to cops and collapsed onto a Nevada freeway — as the alleged gunman calmly copped to the killing and surrendered, newly released police bodycam footage shows.
The chilling video, released by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, shows the boy’s stepfather, Valente Ayala, wailing in anguish at a stunned officer that his stepson, Brandon Dominguez, lay dead in the backseat of his car after a heated clash on a Las Vegas-area freeway on Nov. 15.
“My kid is dead,” the grief-stricken man howled as he pointed toward his Chevy SUV. “My son!”
Ayala was driving the young boy to school at 7:30 a.m. when he and 22-year-old Tyler Matthew Johns began aggressively jockeying for a lane on the congested Interstate 215 in Henderson, police said.
As the stepdad cried out in panic, Johns, who allegedly fired the fatal shot that struck the child, calmly walked up to the officer, put his hands behind his back, and told him to take him to jail, the footage shows.
“I shot at him, bro,” a seemingly guilt-ridden Johns told the cop, later admitting the hotheaded drivers were “road raging” and that the vicious killing was “100 percent my fault.”
“I didn’t know there was a f—ing kid int he back and I killed him.”
The heartbreaking footage also showed the distraught stepdad collapse on the freeway shoulder, bellowing in despair, as the officer discovered the gunned-down boy in the backseat.
Henderson cops previously said that the two men were weaving past each other on the jam-packed highway, prompting both to roll down their windows and scream at each other before Johns allegedly pulled a handgun and opened fire on the victim’s car.
Ayala then rammed into the accused gunman’s four-door sedan, forcing both vehicles to stop in the middle of the road — where both men jumped out and erupted into another explosive altercation.
A passing Las Vegas cop broke up the fight and cuffed Johns, who was later charged with murder and discharging a firearm into a vehicle.
The young boy was pronounced dead at the scene.
“There are no words big enough to described the pain we are feeling,” Dominguez’s heartbroken parents wrote in a GoFundMe, that has since raised nearly $38,400.
“Brandon was the light of our family — our happy, loving boy with the biggest heart, the silliest personality, and a joy that filled every room he entered. Brandon wasn’t just a child we loved; we was truly one of a kind. He had a silly, playful spirit that could make any of us smile, and a heart full of pure joy.”
Johns is reportedly due back in court on Dec. 4.
