A good Samaritan could not save a Las Vegas woman screaming for help as her gun-wielding estranged husband chased her from their home to two drug store parking lots in a chaotic murder-suicide that left a family of five dead, authorities said Thursday.
(FOX)- The man gunned down his wife outside a business and killed their children, ages 9 to 15, at their apartment before shooting himself at the residence, police said. Homicide detectives are investigating what drove him to kill his family.
“It’s really hard to understand how this could happen, how somebody could do that to children,” police Lt. Dan McGrath said.
Court records show that Phoukeo Dej-Oudom filed for divorce May 25 from her husband, Jason Hagan Dej-Odoum. No attorney is listed in the petition, which said they were married in July 2000 in Columbus, Ohio.
The document asked a judge to consider domestic violence when considering custody. It didn’t provide any detail, but noted the involvement of Clark County Child Protective Services.
Police said they aren’t releasing any details of a domestic violence call earlier this month because detectives are looking into it as part of the murder-suicide investigation.