metro police
Chance Wilson
Tuesday, March 23, 2021 | 7:45 p.m.
Three children on a family trip to Las Vegas were eating cereal in their Strip hotel room when their older brother snuck up on one from behind.
Uttering “boom!,” Chance Robbie Wilson, 20, pulled the trigger of a gun, fatally wounding his teenage brother, according to his Metro Police arrest report.
Their brother and sister, ages 8 and 13, witnessed the shooting, police said.
Following the Monday morning shooting, Wilson told homicide detectives that he didn’t think his gun, which he’d built a few days prior using parts he ordered online, was loaded, police said.
The victim, Dalin Wilson, was 15 or 16 years old.
Chance Wilson remained booked Tuesday on a murder count at the Clark County Detention Center without the possibility of bail. He will face a judge Thursday morning, Las Vegas Justice Court logs show.
He didn’t have an attorney on record.
Police responded about 11:40 a.m. to the 21st floor room in the Hilton Grand Vacation, 2650 Las Vegas Blvd. South, and found the teen fatally wounded.
The California family was in town to celebrate the birthdays of the siblings’ father and another sister, police said.
The 13-year-old witness first thought her brothers were joking until she saw blood, police said.
The girl further told police that her 20-year-old brother had told the siblings to lie about the shooting and say that Dalin had shot himself, police said.
That’s a lie he kept up until detectives further questioned him, according to his arrest report. In an interview, he told them that only he and his brother knew about the gun, which he said he built by ordering parts on the internet.
He said he was trying to “save his parents from the terrible reality of the incident,” police paraphrased in the arrest report.
The suspected gunman said that he “had no intentions of shooting his brother” and that he “thought he always kept the chamber empty,” said police, who did not indicate if the parents contributed to the investigation.
