Alton Chucky Bullard Jr., 32, was killed by gunfire on September 11, 2015, outside the Bargain Smokes shop in an east Las Vegas strip mall along the 5500 block of Boulder Highway near East Tropicana Avenue. He had been standing with Aaron Anderson, 25, and a third man when another man approached, left briefly, then returned and opened fire. Anderson died at the scene; Bullard was taken to Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center and pronounced dead shortly after arrival. Coroner’s officials ruled both deaths homicides by gunshot.

Witnesses said the gunman fled on foot toward Tropicana amid a parking lot strewn with shell casings. Police released surveillance images and canvassed the Boulder Crossing Shopping Center in the days after the shooting. Nearly a year later detectives identified 32-year-old James Rachal as a suspect; he was taken into custody in California on unrelated matters and then booked in Clark County on two counts of murder with a deadly weapon and one count of conspiracy to commit murder. Police described Rachal as having entered the store, stepped back out, exchanged words, then fired multiple rounds before fleeing. The motive remained unknown.

If anyone was in the Boulder Crossing Shopping Center that afternoon or has information about what led up to the shooting, please come forward.