Man accused in McCarran shooting had waited for victims for 5 hours

By Ricardo Torres-Cortez

Thursday, Sept. 22, 2016 | 9 p.m.

The man drove to the sixth floor of the airport's parking garage three times on Monday.

By the time Jeffery Brown, 68, drove away the third time after lingering there about five hours, he had shot his estranged wife and her boyfriend, according to Metro Police.

Hours after the shooting at one of McCarran International's Terminal 1 structures, detectives had tracked Brown at a north valley VA Hospital, his arrest report said. He was jailed on multiple counts, including attempted murder.

His estranged wife and her boyfriend who had just landed from a Indianapolis where they'd vacationed a few days were expected to recover at Sunrise Hospital, police said.

The boyfriend's son, who accompanied the couple on the trip, was not shot but told police he had run when Brown pointed the revolver at him, police said.

Officers were called to the airport shortly before 6 p.m. Brown had driven away after firing numerous rounds before police arrived.

Officials immediately deemed the shooting isolated and domestic violence-related. Airport functions were not interrupted.

Brown had called his wife while she vacationed to say that, using OnStar, he had entered her car and that her gun she apparently kept in it was missing, the report said. He also inquired about a set of keys that were inside, which belong to her boyfriend.

At the hospital, the woman told detectives she had a feeling Brown was going to meet them at the airport, but the couple had decided against contacting security.

The trio encountered Brown as they walked to the woman's car, police said. Brown reportedly asked her if the man she was with was the person who had replaced him.

The man confronted Brown, saying if he had a problem "he should address it with him."

At some point while the woman turned around to put bags away, shots rang out, police said. Brown first shot the man then his wife.

Both were shot in the back, police said.

When detectives encountered Brown at the hospital, 6900 N. Pecos Road, in North Las Vegas, he immediately told them he had shot his wife, who was "hooping and hollering," to shut her up after he'd shot her boyfriend, police said.

Brown, whose location information was provided by his son, told police he'd shot the man in the stomach and the woman in the leg. When detectives told him they were shot in the back, he said, "I wasn't trying to kill them because he was so close I could've just shot him in the head."

Brown is scheduled to make a court appearance Oct. 7, jail records show.