Khoice Mateo Robertson was 19 when he was shot and killed on the afternoon of August 29, 2024, outside an apartment in the 3100 block of East Desert Inn Road in Las Vegas. Family described him as resilient, loyal, and a visionary; he is survived by his mother and five older siblings. According to a witness account and what Robertson told a witness before losing consciousness, a man approached, asked his name, and then shot him. Wounded in the chest, Robertson ran into his apartment and told his mother and sister he had been shot; first responders took him to Sunrise Hospital where he was pronounced deceased.

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police investigators said they did not believe the attack was random. Witnesses reported seeing the shooter run through the Cotton Creek apartment complex and jump over a wall, and another witness reported a gray truck leaving the area. Police identified the last incoming call on Robertson’s phone as coming from 18-year-old Ilana Ceniceros; she was arrested September 4, 2024 and reportedly told detectives she had gone to his apartment complex that day to scare him.

If anyone knew Khoice, his movements that afternoon, or saw the shooter or the gray truck near Cotton Creek on August 29, please come forward with information.