An argument that began over a mistaken bus stop button press escalated into the fatal shooting of 27-year-old Jettoni Zendel in Las Vegas on the evening of October 10, 2021. Zendel, a bartender remembered by friends as a beautiful soul and a bright light, had apologized to the driver after pressing the wrong stop. A passenger’s joke led another man to laugh at Zendel, which touched off a verbal dispute involving Zendel, the laughing passenger and the laughing passenger’s companion, identified as 22-year-old John Kirby.

The three men agreed to get off the Regional Transportation Commission bus near Paradise Road and Sahara Avenue to fight. After stepping off the bus around 8 p.m., Zendel put down his backpack and threw a single punch at Kirby. Kirby then produced a handgun and shot Zendel once in the chest. Zendel was taken to Sunrise Hospital and later died; the Clark County Coroner ruled the death a homicide from a gunshot wound to the chest.

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police used bus surveillance to identify those involved, matching Kirby to social media photos showing distinctive hand and forearm tattoos and finding earlier footage of him brandishing a handgun with an extended magazine on a bus.

Did anyone on that bus or nearby witness the argument or the moments after they exited the vehicle?