Las Vegas news briefs for March 27, 2001

Tuesday, March 27, 2001 | 10:58 a.m.

Police seek suspect, 30

Metro Police are searching for a 30-year-old man after another man was shot to death Monday in the garage of a home.

Police found an 18-year-old man on the floor of the garage, with a shotgun wound in the stomach, after they were called to the house in the 1400 block of Euclid Avenue, near Eastern and Saint Louis avenues, about 6:25 a.m.

The man died in University Medical Center at 7:05 a.m. Monday, police said.

Detectives are searching for 30-year-old Jason Raeder in connection with the slaying. Raeder was staying at the house along with the 18-year-old man and two other men, police said.

Raeder is described as white, 5 feet 6 to 5 feet 8, about 240 pounds with a shaved head and numerous tattoos.

The 18-year-old victim's name was not released this morning pending positive identification and notification of his family.

Anyone with information in this case is asked to call Metro at 229-3521 or Secret Witness at 385-5555.

Man wanted in November killing

Members of the fugitive task force on Monday arrested a Las Vegas man accused in a November slaying at a mobile home park.

Members of the Criminal Apprehension Team arrested Jamaar Williams about 1 p.m. Monday after he left his girlfriend's apartment in the 6300 block of Clarice Avenue near Jones Boulevard and U.S. 95.

Williams was arrested on warrants charging him with murder in with the Nov. 7 slaying of 25-year-old Reggie Ezill in a mobile home park in the 4000 block of Las Vegas Boulevard North, police said.

Williams is also accused of going back to the mobile home on Nov. 8 and shooting two other men. Both men survived the shooting.

Two killed in I-15 accident

Two Californians died in a head-on collision on Interstate 15 north of Las Vegas Sunday morning when their northbound car drifted across the median and into the path of a tractor-trailer.

Thomas Crowder, 62, and Andree Bahuth, 61, both of California, were killed instantly about 12:30 a.m. about 15 miles north of Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Nevada Highway Patrol Trooper Alan Davidson said.

Truck driver Steven Brewer, 48, of Inglewood, Colo., was taken to University Medical Center where he was treated and released.

Passenger dies after collision

A Las Vegas woman died Sunday morning from injuries sustained as a passenger in a traffic accident at Charleston Boulevard and Hualapai Way.

Jane A. Damico, 52, died at University Medical Center about five hours after the 1996 Chevrolet she was riding in was struck by a 1988 Jeep Cherokee.

Steven Perilla, 55, also of Las Vegas, was turning south across Charleston onto Hualapai about 8 p.m. when, according to police, Heather Rae Nickel, 27, of Bullhead City, Ariz., drove through a red light and into Perilla's Chevrolet.