Clark County grand jury indicts teen in killing of Chaparral football star
The 17-year-old accused in the shooting that killed former Chaparral High School football player Richard Nelson was indicted Thursday in the murder case.
Richard Newsome, who is being held without bail in a juvenile wing of the Clark County Detention Center, faces one count of murder with use of a deadly weapon and one count of assault with a deadly weapon.
Nelson, 18, was fatally shot last month after intervening in a fight between his sister and several other people outside a home on the 4800 block of Sacks Drive, near Nellis Boulevard and Tropicana Avenue.
Police said Nelson — who was still inside his family’s home, enjoying his last night of college winter break — ran outside to help his older sister, Oniesha Coleman, before Newsome pulled out a gun and shot Nelson several times. Newsome and his mother, 37-year-old Tianna Thomas, and brothers then climbed into a car and drove away.
Nelson was a Missouri State University freshman and football player.
Prosecutors said Thursday that Newsome also pointed a gun at another person before the shooting.
Sometime before the fight that resulted in Nelson’s death, an initial argument broke out between Nelson’s sister and her girlfriend while they talked on the phone, according to a police report. Nelson was not involved in the argument.
Newsome and his mother surrendered to police three days after the shooting.
Thomas faces a felony charge of harboring a felony offender.
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