Judge sets bail hearing for man charged in fatal shooting near Las Vegas Strip
A judge on Wednesday set a bail hearing for Omar Jamal Talley, accused of killing two women near the Las Vegas Strip.
Talley’s lawyer, William Skupa, plans to argue for bail at a hearing Friday, while prosecutors are expected to ask that Talley remain at the Clark County Detention Center without bail.
Talley, 30, faces two charges of murder with a deadly weapon, one count of attempted murder with a deadly weapon and six counts of shooting a gun into an occupied car in connection with the deaths of Californians Melissa Mendoza and Jennifer Chicas, both 27.
Mendoza and Chicas were in a car with Jerraud Jackson Feb. 19 at the Miracle Mile Shops parking garage at Planet Hollywood, 3667 Las Vegas Blvd. South, when Jackson and Talley got into an argument, according to police.
Parking garage security footage showed Talley getting out of a gray Toyota Camry with California plates, walking to the driver’s side of a silver Hyundai sedan with Oregon plates and pointing a gun at the driver, detectives wrote in an arrest report.
About six minutes after security called police to report a fight at the garage, police received another call about gunfire at the intersection of Harmon and Polaris avenues.
Police found Chicas lying on the roadway. She was taken to University Medical Center where she died of a gunshot wound to the chest.
Less than five minutes after the shooting, Mendoza drove the silver Hyundai into The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas’ valet area. She and Jackson had both been shot and were taken to UMC.
Mendoza died of a gunshot wound to the chest. Jackson was hospitalized in critical condition.
Talley has denied shooting anyone and later said the weapon he had was “just a BB gun” but refused to tell police where it was.
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