Fifteen-year-old Xabier Etchart was fatally shot on July 19, 2021, after joining a small group target shooting in the desert outside Laughlin, Nevada, near Needles Highway and Bruce Woodbury Drive. Witnesses said an adult rested a rifle on the back of a truck with a finger on the trigger while talking; as someone climbed down from the truck the firearm slipped, discharged, and struck Xabier in the head. He was taken to Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center in Las Vegas and died eight days later of a gunshot wound.

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police arrested 42-year-old Kiley Seydlitz the same day; detectives described his conduct with the rifle as reckless and recorded witness statements about the gun falling and firing. Initial charges included an open murder count and two counts of child abuse; by November 2021 Seydlitz pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and to possession of a firearm by a prohibited person, and in January 2022 a Clark County judge sentenced him to two to seven years in prison. The memorial and incident records place the shooting at the desert corridor near Bruce Woodbury Drive and Needles Highway.

Does anyone have firsthand information about the group’s activity that day or remembers seeing them in that area?