Seventeen-year-old DeMario Charles Hughes was shot to death in the early morning of August 16, 2014, near Lake Mead and Jones boulevards in Las Vegas. A witness described seeing a heavyset Black woman leaning over Hughes’ body before getting into a small red car; the witness recorded the car’s license plate, which led police to 27-year-old Stacey Annette Thomas.

Police say Thomas and Hughes, who were in a romantic relationship, were driving with Thomas’s 4-year-old son when an argument turned physical. Officers allege Hughes hit Thomas, she pulled into a parking lot on Ilanos Lane and the fight continued in the vehicle. Thomas told investigators Hughes reached for a gun, that she took control of it and pointed it, and that the firearm then went off four times. Hughes fell from the car and died. Thomas was arrested and booked on an open murder charge; she had a prior domestic violence history noted in the case.

If anyone witnessed the incident near Lake Mead and Jones on August 16, 2014, or has information about the events described, please share what is known.