On April 17, 2015, Cassandra Lee Cassidy, a 24-year-old drug and alcohol rehabilitation worker from Las Vegas, was fatally shot near her workplace on the 1300 block of Westwind Road, at a house owned by Solutions Recovery Inc. According to testimony, Cassidy had just parked and was approached by two frightened females who asked to use her cell phone after escaping a white two-door Volvo. While the women were calling a family member, the suspects returned and gunfire erupted. Cassidy was the only person struck and was pronounced dead at University Medical Center.

Two suspects were identified and arrested. A 15-year-old boy later identified as Christopher Brown was turned in by his mother and initially booked into the juvenile detention center before a judge ruled he should be tried as an adult. Michael De Angelo Scott, 21, was booked into the Clark County Detention Center on May 18, 2015; a preliminary hearing found sufficient evidence to present charges including murder, conspiracy to murder, illegally discharging a firearm, and attempted murder. Witnesses at trial included the two females who had fled the Volvo and Jehru Petty-Williams, who rode in the back seat during the shooting. Cassidy’s mother, Carol Kirkum, attended hearings and urged that justice be done.

Are there readers who knew Cassandra or who have information about what happened that day?