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Las Vegas Metro Police Department
Metro Police say they’ve located Tineesha Lashun Howard, aka Yenesis “Yeni” Alfonzo, left, their “person of interest” in the Feb. 21, 2013, shooting on the Strip. Howard is pictured with Ammar Harris, 26, who has been charged in a warrant with three counts of murder associated with the shooting. Harris remains at large.
By William D'Urso 
, Tovin Lapan (contact)
Published Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013 | 9:44 a.m.
Updated Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013 | 11:27 a.m.
The person of interest in last week’s shooting on the Strip sought by detectives was located Wednesday night out of Nevada, Metro Police said.
Police didn’t specify where Tineesha Lashun Howard – who also goes by Yenesis Alfonzo – was found but did say she was located about 8:30 p.m.
It was unclear if after the shooting Howard had remained in contact with Ammar Harris, 26, who police said fired gunshots from a Range Rover into a Maserati in the early morning hours of Feb. 21 as the vehicles made their way up the Las Vegas Strip. But Howard confirmed to police she was in the Range Rover when the shooting took place, police said.
Laura Meltzer, a Metro spokeswoman, said Howard was not taken in custody.
Other than Harris and Howard, there were two other people in the Range Rover at the time of the shooting, Metro Police Capt. Chris Jones said.
Both of the other passengers were females and have been interviewed by detectives, Jones said.
Jones declined to give details about their statements because of the ongoing investigation but said all three women were “cooperative” and not considered suspects.
All of the persons of interest Metro Police were seeking have been identified and interviewed.
Kenneth Cherry Jr., the driver of the Maserati, and a passenger, were hit in the shooting. Cherry’s wounds caused him to lose control of the car, which ran a red light at Flamingo Road and then crashed into a taxi.
The impact triggered an explosion in the cab. In all, three people wound up dead: Cherry; cab driver, Michael Boldon, 62, Las Vegas; and cab passenger Sandra Sutton-Wasmund, 48, a businesswoman from Maple Valley, Wash.
Police found the Range Rover two days later parked at the gated Las Vegas apartment complex where Harris lived, but there was no sign of Harris.
A warrant charging Harris with three counts of murder was issued Friday.
The shooting remains under investigation. Police urge anyone with information about the incident to contact Metro Police Homicide at 828-3521 or to remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 385-5555.
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this is a step in the right direction...im sure she has said plenty in the 12 hours the police have had her...only a matter of time now.
If she wasn't guilty or involved than why would she flee the state?
@robrbarron...she is guilty by association, and involved by being in the suv...probably has a record, im sure running seemed like the best decision, there was always a chance she would not have ever been identified..
@james, yes, I understand that, but running is probably never the best decision, especially in a high profile case like this one.
But you are probably right, running seemed to her to be the best out....
kdwn 720 just reported that the police had interviewed all "3" of the women in the suv ...so unless they got the story wrong it seems there are 2 more...
Read the same thing jaymes4u. Seems the Sun is lagging waaaay behind.
They should all be charged with aiding and abetting. Fleeing the scene not only compromised police investigation but also gave Harris time to flee.
Pimps and ho's battleling over territory.
"They should all be charged with aiding and abetting. Fleeing the scene not only compromised police investigation but also gave Harris time to flee."
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I would have liked to have been a fly in the Range Rover. Were these girls hootin and hollering as Amarr was blasting away, killing innocent people? First chance, ALL of them should have been calling the police instead of looking for a way to flee. Charge all of them.
All these girls...really? Amarr "the thug" is what you aspire to hang out with? All of them are a blight on society.
Garbage, girl too.
They have had a pimp and ho convention at a casino in Vegas for years now. If the casinos do not tolerate drugs and prostitution, why do they host such a convention?
They built a house of cards and when when it falls down they look for a scapegoat for their own doings.
I am shocked, shocked, there is prostitution and drugs going on here! But it wasn't our fault, he did it, it was all his fault.
She was in the car when the shooting took place and she fled the state without going to the police. No charges against her. Hmmmmmmmmm. Something wrong going on here.
omg...give me a break! This kind of crap has been going on in Vegas casino's for years, and they allow it. About 5 yrs ago, a prostitution bust at Balley's happened. And the hotel staff was upset, because the whores pay them big bucks to deliver condoms to the rooms! I was so angry, I decided at that point that the strip would never be safe, and here we go again!
Until the casinos ban these pieces of trash from loitering around their properties, this will continue to only get worse
She was found on Craigslist - In Atlanta, Miami, Dallas, Chicago, San Diego, Los Angeles and Phoenix.