Signs are shown at a candlelight vigil in memory of Johnny Dee Haney, who was gunned down Monday, Feb. 1, 2016, outside the Villas at Green Valley apartments at 2362 N. Green Valley Parkway.
Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2016 | 8:30 p.m.
Johnny Dee Haney's 4-year-old daughter was all he "cherished," according to a friend.
"Everything he did, he did for her," Red Lowery, 28, said.
On Monday afternoon, Haney, 26, was walking with the child to meet the girl's mother for a custody exchange when he was gunned down, Henderson police said.
The mother, Krysytal Guice, 23, and Deonte Coleman, 25, are jailed and accused in the slaying, according to police.
Also according to police:
Officers were dispatched about 1:20 p.m. after multiple callers reported gunshots outside the Villas at Green Valley apartments at 2362 N. Green Valley Parkway.
Arriving units discovered Haney, who was identified Tuesday by the Clark County Coroner's Office, dead from multiple gunshots.
Police allege Guice and Coleman put the child in a vehicle and sped off after the shooting. Coleman is the suspected gunman.
The pair were arrested without incident about 13 hours later in a home near West Cheyenne Avenue and North Hualapai Way. They were booked into the Henderson Detention Center where they each face a murder charge.
About 20 people, including Lowery, gathered on a sidewalk outside the apartment complex where Haney died.
Red, yellow, white and blue candles lay on the sidewalk. Poster boards with photos of Haney and a child sat below balloons. "Justice for Johnny!" was written on one.
He had turned 26 on Thursday, said Lowery, who had tears in her eyes. She held a lit white candle that melted onto the sidewalk as she remembered Haney.
"Best friend is not a good enough title," Lowery said, preferring instead to call Haney her brother.
She spoke with Haney for four minutes Monday morning — less than two hours before he died, Lowery said.
"I told him I was going to call him again," she said about being in a hurry at work. "I never got to hear his voice again."
Haney was "goofy, silly and hyper" and liked to make everybody laugh, she said.
His cousin, 28-year-old Dezario Gordon, said he liked dancing. "(The death) is hurting a lot of people and it's going to continue to hurt people, including his (two) children."
Gordon and Lowery described the loss as surreal and devastating.
"It's sinking in that it's reality," Gordon said. "I'm not sure what it was over, but it definitely wasn't worth someone's life."
More details on the shooting or motive were not released Tuesday.
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