Las Vegas barricade suspect faces domestic battery, gun charges

The man taken into custody Monday after a standoff with Metro Police is facing six felonies and a misdemeanor charge, court records show. 

Deandre Cannon, 28, of Las Vegas had charges ranging from domestic battery and assault with use of a deadly weapon, to child neglect and illegal possession of a firearm stemming from the standoff with police in an apartment in the 4400 block of Twain Road, near Boulder Highway. The standoff ended after he exited the residence holding his 1-year-old son — who was uninjured — and was taken into custody. 

Cannon was arrested on charges of domestic battery, assault domestic violence with use of a deadly weapon, domestic battery by strangulation, resist public officer with a firearm, child abuse/neglect, own/possession of a gun by prohibited person, and domestic battery, according to court records. 

Cannon is being held on $15,000 bond and had a preliminary hearing scheduled for Thursday, court records show. 

Officers responded to the apartment at about 8:30 a.m. Monday after receiving a call about a domestic disturbance, according to Cannon’s arrest report. Upon arrival, officers found a woman with a swollen bottom lip, dried blood on her face and one of her front teeth knocked out and hanging from her braces wire, according to the report. 

The woman was identified as Cannon’s girlfriend and mother of the baby taken after Cannon went into custody. She was also with her sister and her 6-year-old son from a prior relationship, according to the report. 

Officers made contact with Cannon at the apartment, but he would not open the door for officers, according to the report. He talked briefly through the balcony door but denied wrongdoing. Medical personnel responded to the scene, but the woman refused to go to the hospital. 

At approximately noon, Metro was called to the apartment again after the woman said Cannon pointed a handgun at her while she was attempting to pick up some belongings on the front patio. Police set up a perimeter around the apartment and SWAT was notified after Cannon refused to cooperate with officers on scene, according to the report. 

At about 2:50 p.m., the standoff ended after Cannon was taken into custody after exiting the apartment. Detectives found a handgun — which matched the description of the gun the woman said Cannon pointed at her — in the refrigerator of the apartment, according to the report. 

Detectives also found a 40-round 9 mm magazine containing 35 live rounds in the refrigerator next to the gun. Cannon said the gun was not his and did not know where it came from, according to the report.