Published Saturday, July 29, 2017 | 5:13 p.m.
Updated Saturday, July 29, 2017 | 5:50 p.m.
Quinton Reese
A woman, who had “vented her disappointment” about the way her boyfriend had treated her, summoned a friend earlier this month, according to a Metro Police arrest report.
The friend, Quinton Reese, 35, went to the east valley apartment complex where the woman lived on July 11, armed with a gun he had borrowed.
Gunfire broke out and the woman's boyfriend — Justin Martin, 28 — lay dead between two vehicles under a carport in the 3700 block of East Bonanza Road, police said.
Reese, who admitted to detectives to shooting Martin—who had also been armed, but did not pull out his gun—was arrested Tuesday, police said.
Reese is being held without bail at the Clark County Detention Center on one count of murder with a deadly weapon, jail logs show.
Several people reported the sound of gunshots to police about 10:30 p.m., police said.
The woman first told detectives that she and Martin had just arrived at her apartment and that she went inside her apartment while Martin stayed behind unloading some purchases.
Soon after going inside she said she heard gunshots, and then went outside to “call out” for Martin before she found him lying fatally wounded, police said.
Upon a search of her phone records on July 21, detectives found that she’d been in touch with Reese the day of the shooting, police said. She told detectives that she knew Reese “had feelings for her,” according to the report.
The woman and Reese met earlier in the day, after she’d called Reese asking for him to repay a loan she’d made him, police said. During that meeting, in which Reese told detectives he paid her back, the woman told Reese that Martin had mistreated her.
In that conversation, Reese told the woman he would go to the complex and help her, police said. Detectives in the report didn’t specify what they thought Reese meant with help.
So, according to the arrest report, Reese borrowed a gun from a friend, because the woman had told him Martin carried firearms.
The woman and Reese coordinated the meeting via text messages up until she and Martin pulled up to the complex, police said.
Reese said that he was confronted by Martin at the parking lot and that he pulled out a gun because he felt threatened by Martin, who allegedly had told him he was a gang member, police said.
“Reese began to fire his handgun at Martin multiple times. Reese said that Martin turned and went in between two cars and he fired a few more times,” the report said.
The woman told police that she didn’t see Reese when she and Martin arrived, but saw him running away with a gun in hand after the shooting, police said.
Reese is next scheduled in court on Monday.
