Suspect in Las Vegas road rage shooting taken into custody following standoff

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Las Vegas police took a suspect into custody Thursday afternoon in the killing of a mother of four following a road rage incident last week, officials said.

A suspect has been taken into custody reference the Tammy Meyers road rage homicide. #LVMPDnews

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SWAT teams had surrounded a home about a block from where 44-year-old Tammy Meyers lived. At one point, Meyers’ husband showed up at the scene and attempted to cross the street in front of the house but he was held back by police. He then yelled, “There’s the animal, a block away.”

Jesse Roybal, a spokesman for Las Vegas Metro Police, said earlier that the suspect remained inside the home. Authorities had been trying to contact him using a bullhorn to get him to surrender.

It was not immediately clear if the man was believed to be the shooter.

Meyers was shot in the head outside her home in a Las Vegas cul-de-sac shortly before midnight last Thursday night after confrontations that began when she was giving her 15-year-old daughter an after-hours driving lesson and the girl honked at a driver she felt was speeding, police said.

After an argument, Meyers left to find the suspect’s vehicle along with her adult son, who was armed with a gun.

At some point, someone inside the other car fired multiple shots, one of which struck Meyers, investigators have said. She was taken off life support on Saturday.

Robert Meyers said his adult son had fired several shots with a handgun at the car. He told his father that there were three people inside.

Robert Meyers also said he thinks at least one 9 mm shot by his 23-year-old son hit the car.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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