Las Vegas Sun

March 29, 2024

Second victim dead after Saturday shooting at senior apartment complex

A woman shot at a senior-living apartment complex Saturday died Wednesday — four days after the shooting killed her son, officials said.

The Clark County Coroner’s Office confirmed Betty Mattox, 78, died Wednesday, but the coroner has not determined the official cause and manner of Mattox’s death.

Her son, 55-year-old Ronald Mattox, died Saturday from multiple gunshot wounds to the neck and torso. The shooting happened at the senior-living complex in the 4100 block of Bonanza Road.

According to an arrest report, the shooter — identified as 64-year-old Roger Foley — dialed 911 Saturday and said he had shot and killed a man outside his apartment.

Emergency crews and police arrived to find Ronald Mattox dead in a hallway outside his apartment, the report said. Betty Mattox was transported to University Medical Center with a gunshot wound to her upper right arm and chest, according to the report.

Foley told officers he was on his way to practice target-shooting and was carrying a 9 mm handgun in a briefcase and pushing a small cart with ammunition when he encountered Ronald Mattox in the hallway, the report said.

Foley told police he felt threatened during a physical altercation, removed the handgun from the case and began shooting, the report said.

Ronald Mattox allegedly told his mother to call police, and a bullet hit her as she re-entered her apartment, the report said.

Foley, Las Vegas, was arrested Saturday and booked into Clark County Detention Center, according to a Metro Police arrest report released Monday. Foley is being held without bail on one count of murder with a deadly weapon and one count of attempted murder with a deadly weapon.

The Clark County District Attorney’s Office referred the case to the Nevada Attorney General’s Office to consider formal charges against Foley. A relative of Foley’s works in the District Attorney’s Office, which prompted transfer of the case to the state attorney general, said Tess Driver, a spokeswoman for the District Attorney’s Office.

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