Brandon Dominguez-Chavarria was an 11-year-old student from Henderson who was shot and killed on the morning of November 14, 2025, while riding in the back seat of a hybrid SUV driven by his stepfather on the westbound 215 Beltway near Gibson Road. A confrontation between drivers that began when the stepfather merged onto the freeway escalated into a roadside altercation; police say 22-year-old Tyler Matthew Johns fired one round through a window of the SUV, the bullet passing through and striking Brandon in the head. Brandon was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead later that day; the Clark County coroner ruled the death a homicide by gunshot wound to the head. Witnesses and an arriving officer stopped the confrontation; a handgun and a spent shell casing were recovered and Johns was taken into custody at the scene.

Johns was booked on counts including open murder with a deadly weapon and discharging a firearm into an occupied vehicle and was ordered held without bail after a bail hearing where his attorney described the shooting as accidental. Brandon’s school, Hannah Marie Brown Elementary, offered counseling and support to students; a GoFundMe organized by his uncle remembered him as a happy, soccer-loving child who enjoyed Roblox. The case remains before the courts.

If anyone was driving on westbound 215 near Gibson Road that morning or has information about the confrontation, please share what was seen.