A manhunt is underway in Las Vegas for a murder suspect who escaped from police custody.
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Police said Perez was arrested about 10 a.m. Friday; he is linked to the fatal shooting of 31-year-old Mohammed Robinson on August 27 in a parking lot in the 3000 block of Las Vegas Boulevard North.
North Las Vegas police spokesman Aaron Patty said that a detective left the room and Perez was able to turn the handcuffs “until he broke free and escaped the building”. Authorities said Saturday, Sept. 4 that the Ford F-150 pickup truck had been found but Alonso Perez remains on the loose.
Cops say Perez is Hispanic, about 6-foot-3 and 200 pounds. He also has an “Air Jordan” tattoo on his neck.
He had been accused in the fatal shooting of a 31-year-old man who, according to witnesses, was attacked because he did not open the door for a woman at a McDonald’s.
He’d been arrested for questioning in the August 27 slaying of a 31-year-old man outside a McDonald’s restaurant.
A police spokesperson said: “I can understand their frustration – we’re just as frustrated ourselves”.
Anyone with information about Perez should call the North Las Vegas police at 702-633-9111. “You could’ve walked away from the argument, you didn’t need to start the argument, you didn’t need to take it any further”.
According to a fundraising page set up by Robinson’s family, the man was a “loving, caring, hardworking” father of four and stepdad to two “who did anything and everything he could to support his family”.
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“I don’t understand it at all”, said Maggie Robinson, the murder victim’s sister.
