On December 16, 2015, Veronica N. Clay, 45, was fatally shot during an attempted robbery at a doctor’s office in the 2800 block of West Charleston Boulevard in Las Vegas. Around 7:15 p.m. a man and a woman with their faces covered entered the office. The male suspect pistol-whipped the doctor while the female suspect assisted in ransacking the premises. The pair held a doctor, a second employee, and a patient at gunpoint, demanding money and drugs; the doctor suffered non-life-threatening injuries.

A medical assistant briefly left, retrieved a handgun from his vehicle and returned to confront the suspects. As the suspects were descending the stairs the assistant fired several rounds, striking the female suspect, Veronica Clay, who was taken to University Medical Center Trauma Center and pronounced dead of a gunshot wound to the chest. The male suspect fled on foot and was initially described as a black male about 5 feet 8 inches tall with a thin build, dressed in dark clothing and a ski mask.

On December 31, 2015, police arrested 43-year-old Mario Chism at a North Las Vegas residence; he was found with a gunshot wound to his foot and was booked on charges including burglary, robbery, battery and kidnapping. Did anyone have contact with Veronica Clay or remember seeing suspicious activity near that office on the evening of December 16, 2015?