Man guns down his grandma on Summerlin street, police say

By Jesse Granger, Ricardo Torres-Cortez

Published Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016 | 8:15 p.m.

Updated Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2016 | 10:42 a.m.

A man suspected of shooting and killing his grandmother on the street of a Summerlin neighborhood Tuesday evening is in custody after an hourslong standoff ended without incident, according to Metro Police.

For more than three hours, the armed suspect holed himself up in the backyard of the home he lived in with the victim in the 2100 block of Henniker Way, near Rampart and Lake Mead boulevards, Metro Lt. Dan McGrath said in a briefing broadcast online.

Police identified the suspect on Wednesday as Bradley Francis, 45. He was booked at the Clark County Detention Center on a count of murder, police said.

Police responded to a shooting about 4:45 p.m. and found the woman, who was only described as being in her mid to late 80s, lying on the street with a gunshot wound to the head, McGrath said.

Multiple neighbors called police about a commotion in which the woman was seen bleeding and being chased by the gunman from her house onto the street before he fired his gun, McGrath said. A motive hadn't been established late Tuesday.

Sometime after the shooting, the man ran to the backyard, McGrath said. Neighbors tried to render medical aid, but the woman was already dead, McGrath said.

The neighborhood was evacuated as SWAT officers made their way to the scene in which they had little to no communication with the suspect, McGrath said. Eventually, about 8 p.m., the man walked out of the yard on his own.

Based on an initial investigation, it did not appear Francis has a criminal record, McGrath said.

Neighbors were being escorted back into their homes and the woman's body remained on the ground while a crime scene investigation unit investigated, McGrath said about 9:45 p.m.

A young man who lives in and was at the house when the shooting occurred was not injured, McGrath said. Another woman who also resides there was not home.

Further details were not immediately available.