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March 29, 2024

Shooting victim’s body returned to family; no tests for gunpowder residue

Candlelight Vigil for Tammy Meyers

L.E. Baskow

Kristal Meyers wipes a tear as she stands next to brother Robert Meyers Jr. during a candlelight vigil Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2015, for their mother, Tammy Meyers, who was taken off life support Saturday. The vigil was in the parking lot of Walter Johnson Junior High School.

Updated Friday, Feb. 27, 2015 | 4:28 p.m.

Defendant in ‘Road-Rage’ Shooting in Court

Erich Milton Nowsch Jr., 19, appears in court Monday, Feb. 23, 2015, at the Regional Justice Center. Nowsch is suspected of being the shooter in the “road-rage” shooting of 44-year-old Tammy Meyers. Launch slideshow »

The body of a Las Vegas mother killed in a neighborhood gunbattle was returned to her family before attorneys defending a 19-year-old on murder and other charges could examine it, authorities said Friday.

Deputy District Attorney Christopher Hamner told a Las Vegas judge that the return of 44-year-old Tammy Meyers' body from the Clark County coroner made moot a defense request to be allowed to conduct tests to see if Meyers or someone near her fired a gun before she died.

Erich Milton Nowsch Jr.'s defense attorneys, Augustus Claus and Conrad Claus, have said they want to investigate every possible angle in the fatal Feb. 12 shooting, including whether Meyers had a gun.

Nowsch was arrested Feb. 19 after a series of revelations reshaped official accounts of the slaying several times.

He's jailed without bail awaiting a March 10 preliminary hearing, but prosecutors could present evidence in the case to a grand jury and seek an indictment before then.

Tammy Meyers' husband, Robert Meyers, said Monday the family planned to have her body cremated so they can scatter some of her ashes in the ocean and inter some at a family plot in Las Vegas.

Robert Meyers didn't immediately respond Friday to messages.

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