On the evening of May 14, 2019, 48-year-old Michael Ray Jamerson was found shot once in the head in the laundry room of his North Las Vegas home on Harold Street. His 12-year-old son, who was in the shower at the time, heard the gunshot and called 911. Investigators ruled the death a homicide and found signs the assailant had entered through an exterior wall and lay in wait.

Suspicion focused on Jamerson’s estranged 32-year-old son, Michael Jamerson Jr., who had been kicked out months earlier and reportedly moved back into the house the night of the killing. Detectives noted online searches by Jamerson Jr. about becoming a suspect and police interrogation. A handgun that an aunt had taken from him was linked by ballistics to a casing at the scene and the bullet recovered from the victim. Prosecutors charged Jamerson Jr. with murder with a deadly weapon and burglary with a deadly weapon; his attorney said he would plead not guilty.

Anyone who knew Michael Jamerson or has information about that night is asked to come forward.