North Las Vegas police say the vehicle that a homicide suspect is accused of taking after escaping custody has been found.
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The escape happened when Perez was alone in a room inside the detective bureau.
“He twisted them until they broke”, North Las Vegas police officer Aaron Patty said.
The police chief also admitted that detectives were not watching the live feed while Perez escaped, according to KSNV.
After fleeing the police station, Perez reportedly stole a white pickup truck, which was recovered on Saturday. It was found a few hours later, abandoned in a neighborhood several miles east of downtown Las Vegas.
He’d been arrested for questioning in the August 27 slaying of a 31-year-old man outside a McDonald’s restaurant.
‘However, we will learn from our mistakes so they are not repeated and that’s the goal’.
It was another 25 minutes before detectives realized he was gone, the police chief said.
“The planets aligned for that guy”, said the captain of the North Las Vegas detective bureau Wednesday.
Perez is still on the loose and “is considered armed and unsafe, according to Officer Patty”.
“He torques it to the point, using some of his body weight, that it snaps the hinges”, Police Chief Alexander Perez said.
But Patty said a fugitive-hunting team of local and federal agents is trying to find him.
Surveillance video shows the 25-year-old break the cuffs that were attached to a pipe on the table.
Murder, use of a firearm, escape and auto theft charges were added Wednesday.
Witnesses say the shooting followed an argument about holding a door open for a woman. He is due in court Thursday morning and faces charges of murder, discharging a gun into an occupied structure, escape and grand larceny of an automobile.
“Someone will be monitoring the interrogation room at all times when someone’s in custody or being interviewed”, the chief said.
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He then allegedly stole a vehicle and fled. Mayoral-Lizarraga is serving two-to-five years in state prison.
