Walking to a North Las Vegas shopping center in a group, the teenage suspect brandished a gun and spoke about “wanting to shoot someone.”
It wasn’t long before Al’Dijon Williams, 18, arrived at the parking lot of the strip mall — near West Centennial Parkway and Goldfield Street — on Nov. 13, and allegedly made good on his wish.
It’s there, at about 2 p.m., that Williams confronted 16-year-old LaMadre Harris, pulled out the gun and pumped two bullets into his body, according to a North Las Vegas Police arrest report.
As Harris lay on the ground, Williams allegedly stood over him and shot him again, police said.
Williams, who also is known as “Fatty," then "laughed at [Harris] as he was on the ground dying,” a witness told detectives.
Harris was rushed to University Medical Center where he later died.
In broad daylight and after classes at a nearby school were recently dismissed, detectives spoke to several witnesses about the shooting.
Their testimonies described in detail what surveillance images had captured: The gunman had a red bandanna over his mouth, a wide hooded sweatshirt, a Gucci backpack and black gloves with white fingertips.
Eyewitnesses also provided a name and possible motive.
An associate told detectives that Williams had spoken of wanting to pull the trigger, while another said that although Williams was a “close friend,” he was “out of line,” police said.
Another witness told detectives that the victim had said, “So you said you’re gonna kill me,” right before he was fatally wounded, police said.
A week after the shooting, the FBI and North Las Vegas Police tracked down Williams to a location near Tropicana Avenue and Maryland Parkway and took him into custody.
He is being held at the Las Vegas City Jail on one count of murder.
In the aftermath of the shooting, Harris’ mother, Sydney Harris, told KLAS Channel 8 that she was devastated and at a loss for words. “This is the worst experience I’ve ever felt in my life.”
The station’s camera later panned to the grieving mother at a vigil, wailing, “He didn’t even get a chance to live his life — he was 16.”