The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department held a press conference Thursday to provide information on an officer who responded to a 911 call Tuesday and killed the person who had dialed 911 instead of the alleged burglar.
Police received the 911 call about 12:40 a.m. Tuesday, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported. During the call, “43-year-old Brandon Durham…told officers that two people had broken into his home where he lived with his 15-year-old daughter.”
Responding officers found windows smashed on vehicles in the driveway and windows on the home smashed as well.
Upon entering the home, police found Durham and 31-year-old Alejandra Boudreaux fighting over control of a knife.
Repeated orders from police to drop the knife were reportedly ignored, and the officer opened fire. Durham died from numerous gunshot wounds.
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KLAS noted that police think there was an “existing relationship between Durham and Boudreaux.”
Boudreaux faces charges for home invasion with a deadly weapon, assault with a deadly weapon, and domestic violence, among other charges.
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