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Officials investigate the site of a shooting and multi-car accident that left three people dead and at least three injured on the Las Vegas Strip early Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013.
By Tovin Lapan (contact) 
Friday, March 1, 2013 | 2 a.m.
Ammar Harris
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Ammar Harris went to Haze nightclub at Aria before arguing with Kenneth Cherry Jr. outside the casino and then opening fire on the Strip, killing Cherry and two others, documents from Metro Police released Thursday allege.
The warrant arrest report indicates Metro Police traced both Cherry and Harris’ movements in the early morning hours of Feb. 21 using surveillance video from Aria, Vdara and Bellagio, and footage from a dashboard camera in a taxi.
Harris, 26, arrived at the north valet area of Aria in a black Range Rover at 1:30 a.m. accompanied by a female, according to the report. Harris then entered Haze nightclub, where rapper French Montana was performing and Harris had reserved a table with three females.
Around 3:50 a.m., Harris left Haze. As Harris came to the valet area at Aria, Cherry, 27, exited the casino and got into his silver Maserati after spending a short time at Aria. Cherry had a passenger in his car, identified as Freddy Walters.
At 4:10 a.m. the female who arrived with Harris went to the Range Rover in the valet area while Harris walked over to Cherry’s Maserati, approached the driver’s door and “remained there for a second or two before walking toward the casino,” the report states.
Cherry drove away and was stopped at a traffic light on eastbound Harmon Avenue when Harris pulled in front of him in his Range Rover. A Lucky Cab that was carrying two passengers to the Palms was behind Cherry's Maserati captured what happened next on its dashboard camera. The cab driver gave a statement to police.
According to the cab driver, Harris rolled down his window and began yelling at Cherry.
Harris and Cherry both turned north onto Las Vegas Boulevard before stopping at a red light at the intersection with Bellagio Drive. When the light turned green, Harris cut off Cherry, forcing him to swerve into the next lane.
“As the Range Rover pulled into the path of the Maserati, a horn sounded, and approximately one second later, as the Range Rover was next to the Maserati, a gunshot was fired,” according to the report.
That initial gunshot, Metro Police believe, fatally wounded Cherry, although he was not pronounced dead until he was transported to UMC after the incident. The bullet hit Cherry in his left shoulder, perforated his chest and then struck Walters in the left arm, according to the police report.
After the initial shot, the two cars “sped north on Las Vegas Boulevard.” Two more gunshots could be heard on the cab’s video.
Just as the two vehicles approached Flamingo Road, Cherry attempted to move the Maserati around the rear of the Range Rover, and then three more gunshots were heard.
Just before 4:20 a.m., the Maserati ran a red light at Flamingo Road and collided with the passenger side of a Desert Cab traveling east on Flamingo Road. The cab burst in flames. The impact killed driver Michael Bolden, 62, and passenger Sandra Sutton-Wasmund, 48, a businesswoman from Maple Valley, Wash.
“Cherry accelerated and lost consciousness prior to entering the intersection at Flamingo Road and struck the Desert Cab,” the report said.
Police did not find any weapons or cartridge cases in the Maserati and found no evidence that Cherry or Walters were armed.
Harris was arrested at a Studio City apartment complex by the Los Angeles Police Department and FBI on Thursday. He now faces three counts of murder and one count of attempted murder, plus counts for discharging a firearm into a vehicle and discharging a firearm out of a vehicle, according to a criminal complaint filed last week by Clark County prosecutors.
good job by metro for getting this thug.bad job by haze nightclub and the security for letting this argument escalate from the club into the valet area .
didnt read anywhere where they argued at the club
Well dodgerchuck maybe that isn't part of the story!
They caught him!!! May justice be served!
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Yeah... a lot of people were quick to put this off onto the clubs and the "problems" they cause. Doesn't sound here like it was much of a contributor, as this reads as those Cherry never even entered the Haze. So important to have the facts.
@AshleyAshley..You finally get it? You recently complained, "...metro isn't saying very much, nor is the sun reporting very much.."
Now you have a minute by minute account of what happened. And just as I told you, Cherry did nothing to provoke or prolong the incident. Nothing even suggests your crazy assumption that Cherry was a pimp.
Now that we know what happened. It seems you owe Cherry's family an apology.
Harris is nothing more than an animal. Actually an animal is a step up for him. He was probably leading a decent lifestyle minus the fact it was totally illegal. Nice apartment, nice car and woman all around him. The jerk wad just guaranteed the next 50 years in a 6 x 9, fed dry meatloaf, told when to eat, shower and lights out.
"Police report sheds light on details"............"to shed light on - make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear;" Huh?
I'd like to know where sgtrock got his information. This is not a racial issue. It's about a thug. A minority of black youths are involved in crime and the rest are trying not to get killed. The so called culture is not about violence nor is any other culture. I'm suprised at the ignorance people have about other people and turn every little thing into a race issue. Grow up and read, study before typing.
@ poppaD, Are you being facetious or flippant?
Too bad SuperThug Harris wasn't riddled with bullets by the LAPD and FBI (yeah - shocking words coming from a "liberal"). Then there would have been no trial or free room and board for this thug for the rest of his life. Would have saved tax payer dollars.
Looks like the story changed again. Is this now a road rage situation? There will be a plea deal because the casinos, politicians, and Metro do not want a long dirty trial.
Did this guy really think he was going to shoot somone on the 'strip and get away with it? What was this shooting supposed to accomplish?
While I'm glad they caught this guy, my heart is still heavy with the loss of two innocent lives...Michael Bolden and Sandra Sutton-Wasmund, who were unfortunately in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Yet all these criminals don't care about these innocent lives as long as they get who they are after :(
I have a suggestion. Maybe the good people of Las Vegas, 20-30000 or so, could all greet Mr. Harris, with Metro's approval of course, with a ticker-tape type parade upon his extradition from LA to Las Vegas. Doing so will allow Mr. Harris to know how much he was missed while absent. Ha Ha
Another poster child for expedited executions. Lower Life Form that thinks when he gets annoyed he can kill the annoyer AND passersby. We get to pay for his public defender AND his room and board for, what, 10-20 years.
I volunteer for jury duty, again.
The person will get away with it sort of, because these clubs make 10 to 32 million dollars a year. Plus, they bring in a lot of people to the casinos. Like they do not know their casino clubs (oops sorry, they are owned by someone else, yeah sure) bring in many losers and others that do not mind if they lose a bundle as long as they get laid and high. ????
"...if you or anyone of your "hangover crew" gets caught or killed, the casino will deny that you or any of your ion force had anything to do with them..."
You see the governor hiding from this mess. He wouldn't touch it with a ten foot political consultant.
Expect this situation to fade away..
What failed logic.
"Lower Life Form that thinks when he gets annoyed he can kill the 'annoyer' AND passersby. We get to pay for his public defender AND his room and board for, what, 10-20 years."
Followed by
"I volunteer for jury duty, again."
Do people not see the blatant idiocy in that logic? You have someone complaining about wasting tax payer money - all while acknowledging that it is ok to be part of a jury with a guilty decision in mind.
You understand that will lead to a mistrial? Do you comprende who pays for a new trial?
This logic really is flabbergasting. Those with similar logic contribute to wasted tax payer money as much as criminals. Equally foolish.
Where is his money for an attorney? A Range Rover and a reserved table at Haze doesn't come cheap.
Metros account of the tragic events that took place in the early morning hours of February 21st completely exonerates Mr.Cherry of any wrong doing or any involvement other than being in the wrong place in the wrong time and crossing paths with a crazy person armed with a gun.
Glad they have apprehended Ammar Harris,and I hope justice is served on behalf of ALL of the families that lost loved ones on the morning of February 21st.
@california49er
based on the description of events, it sounds more like two pimps fighting over turf than some "innocent rapper" being shot by another.
Nearly 50% of all murder victims are black even though blacks only make up 13% of population.
Some of the most popular music in the black community praises violence, use of drugs, hatred of cops and degradation of women.
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Who is the head of security at the "Haze?" Some ex-metro cop? In fact were there any "off duty' Metro cops moonlighting at the Haze/Aria? as they are allowed to do.
The victims will be paid off by a "concern citizen" (casino owners.) Remember when a payment was made to the children stabbed at the Mesquite Casino trailer park casino a while back? They did not want people to know about meth dealers selling drugs in their trailer park.
Then Woolfsen (Mr Metro fix it) will say: well we reached a plea deal and the families of the victims do not want to go through the "trauma of a trial..." Of course the casino do not want the dirty laundry of the club scene aired in a public trial. So then it will be "life without parole." Besides, Metro made its share of flubs from initially saying event was a "rolling gun battle" to releasing pictures of a reality TV star as a "person of interest." (Metro does not want a trial either.)
.. and the casino clubs will go back to providing the drugs and prostitutes that people want on a trip to "what happens here, stays here Vegas."
Case closed