Grand jury indicts man in 2-year-old’s death
The man accused of killing 2-year-old Amari Nicholson was indicted Friday on murder and other charges.
Terrell Rhodes, 27, confessed to killing his girlfriend’s missing toddler after the child had wet himself, according to his police report.
The grand jury indictment means that prosecutors will no longer have to hold a public hearing to convince a judge that there is enough evidence to take the case to trial. Instead, the case will move straight to Clark County District Court.
Amari vanished May 5 from the Emerald Suites apartment complex where he lived with Rhodes and his mother, Tayler Nicholson.
Rhodes initially told police that Amari had been kidnapped. The boy’s disappearance sparked a weeklong communitywide search before his body was found in a nearby apartment complex.
After confessing, Rhodes was placed in an interview room at the Metropolitan Police Department headquarters on Martin Luther King Boulevard, where he lunged at a detective and grabbed her gun, police said.
After being disarmed, Rhodes said, “I wanna die,” and “Kill me,” according to the police report.
Rhodes is charged with murder, two counts of attempted murder, four counts of assault on a police officer with a deadly weapon and four counts of resisting a police officer with the use of a firearm.
He had a court hearing last week but did not appear. Justice of the Peace Harmony Letizia said he would be quarantined for two weeks at the Clark County Detention Center, where he is being held without bail.
He is set to appear back in court Wednesday.
Contact Briana Erickson at berickson@reviewjournal.com or 702-387-5244. Follow @ByBrianaE on Twitter.
