Terrell Rhodes, right, answers District Court judge Jacqueline Bluth’s questions as he appears in court with his attorney Robert Langford at the Regional Justice Center, on Thursday, April 25, 2024, in Las Vegas. Rhodes pleaded guilty in the killing of his girlfriend’s son after he disappeared from an Emerald Suites in 2021. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @bizutesfaye
Terrell Rhodes, right, his attorney Robert Langford, center, and Chief Deputy District Attorney Marc DiGiacomo, left, listen to District Court judge Jacqueline Bluth’s instructions at the Regional Justice Center, on Thursday, April 25, 2024, in Las Vegas. Rhodes pleaded guilty in the killing of his girlfriend’s son after he disappeared from an Emerald Suites in 2021. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @bizutesfaye
Terrell Rhodes is escorted out of the courtroom as District Court judge Jacqueline Bluth, right, looks on at the Regional Justice Center, on Thursday, April 25, 2024, in Las Vegas. Rhodes pleaded guilty in the killing of his girlfriend’s son after he disappeared from an Emerald Suites in 2021. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @bizutesfaye
Terrell Rhodes, accused of killing his girlfriend’s 2-year-old son Amari Nicholson, is escorted into court for his initial arraignment at the Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas on June 2, 2021. (Rachel Aston/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @rookie__rae
Amari Nicholson (Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department)
A 30-year-old man pleaded guilty Thursday to murder and assaulting a police officer, admitting he killed his girlfriend’s 2-year-old son in 2021 and later grabbed a detective’s gun.
Terrell Rhodes initially told police that 2-year-old Amari Nicholson had been kidnapped, prompting a weeklong community-wide search for the boy before his body was found in a nearby apartment complex.
Amari had vanished on May 5, 2021, from an Emerald Suites apartment complex, where he lived with Rhodes and his mother, Taylor Nicholson.
A grand jury indicted Rhodes in May 2021 on charges of murder, two counts of attempted murder, four counts of assaulting a police officer with a deadly weapon and four counts of resisting a police officer with a deadly weapon.
Rhodes pleaded guilty on Thursday to first-degree murder and assault against a protected person with a deadly weapon. Attorneys negotiated a deal that requires Rhodes to serve a sentence of 20 years to life in prison for the murder charge.
“I do intend to go along with the negotiations,” District Judge Jacqueline Bluth said Thursday.
According to a police report, Rhodes confessed to hitting Amari several times after the boy wet himself.
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