On the night of March 22, 2021, 36-year-old Jourell Ng was at his Las Vegas home and on a live chat with a friend. During the call the friend heard Ng’s dog barking, a sound described as a slap, then a scream before the line went silent. Ng’s wife, Emily Ikuta, placed a 911 call shortly afterward, saying she had just returned from walking the dog and found her husband on the floor struggling to breathe. Officers pronounced Ng dead at the scene from a gunshot wound.

Ikuta initially suggested a diabetic episode and later said Ng might have accidentally shot himself while cleaning a gun, claiming she had found a handgun beside him and secured it. Investigators reported inconsistencies: the body’s position and lack of blood pooling did not match her account, gun-cleaning supplies appeared unused, a live-chat friend supplied a timeline conflicting with Ikuta’s story, a neighbor heard a loud argument before the shot, and ballistics showed the bullet trajectory was not consistent with an accidental, self-inflicted cleaning injury. Ikuta was arrested for murder and on May 23, 2022 entered an Alford plea to second-degree murder; she was sentenced to 10 to 25 years in prison.

Did anyone in Las Vegas know Jourell Ng or have information about the events that night?