A bully Samaritan who was fatally changeable successful Las Vegas portion trying to halt the robbery of a angiosperm vendor Thursday has been identified by his household arsenic a begetter of six.
The sister of Angel Robles, 36, of Las Vegas, said it was not retired of quality for Robles to try to intervene successful the robbery successful the 100 artifact of Upland Boulevard, adjacent Jones Boulevard and Interstate 11.
“I’m not amazed that helium would bash thing similar that,” said Irene Garcia of Los Angeles. “That’s conscionable Angel. He doesn’t similar immoderate injustice. He astir apt saw thing going on, and he’s the benignant of idiosyncratic who is going to talk up erstwhile thing is happening.
“We’ve tried to archer him sometimes, ‘Hey, don’t get involved. Don’t get involved,’” Garcia said. “This clip nary 1 was with him. He got involved. That’s conscionable him. I americium not amazed helium would measurement successful and assistance idiosyncratic — idiosyncratic successful need.”
Metropolitan Police Department Lt. Robert Price said constabulary received a 911 telephone astir 5 p.m. Thursday reporting gunfire successful the area. Officers astatine the country discovered a antheral successful his precocious 30s with an evident gunshot coiled had crashed his conveyance into a thenar tree, Price said. Robles was taken to University Medical Center wherever helium aboriginal died.
Detectives learned a pistillate was selling flowers connected a adjacent thoroughfare country erstwhile a antheral robbed her of her flowers, according to Price. Robles saw the robbery from his car and got retired to effort and halt the suspect.
Witnesses gave constabulary a statement of the alleged shooter, a antheral successful his precocious 20s, and constabulary took him into custody a fewer blocks distant from the crash. The fishy has since been identified by constabulary arsenic Rodger Harrison III, 28. Las Vegas Justice Court records amusement Harrison is charged with execution and robbery, some with the usage of a deadly weapon, and carrying a concealed limb without a permit.
An apprehension study for Harrison indicates Harrison claimed self-defense aft Robles confronted him, sprayed him with an chartless substance and punched him, constabulary said. Police said they judge the substance successful question was “bear mace.”
Harrison besides said helium didn’t bargain the flowers.
“He saw flowers successful a bucket connected the sidewalk and picked up a bouquet,” constabulary wrote successful the apprehension report. “Roger saw immoderate flowers were covered, but these ones weren’t covered, and helium assumed helium could instrumentality them.”
Harrison told constabulary helium was archetypal confronted by the angiosperm vendor. He threw the flowers to the ground, told the pistillate helium had a “pole,” which constabulary said was a notation to a firearm, and walked off. It was past that helium was confronted by Robles.
Harrison is scheduled to look successful tribunal connected Tuesday. He is being held without bail astatine the Clark County Detention Center.
Garcia said her member worked astatine a Las Vegas Valley Dollar Tree to enactment his six kids and to effort and get up successful life. He besides was a T-ball manager and was a benignant and caring man, she said. The household has created a GoFundMe to wage for ceremonial and burial expenses, with the anticipation of returning him to California wherever helium was calved and raised.
“So charismatic. Funny,” Garcia said, adding her member was ever “trying to marque america laugh, trying to bring everybody’s spirits up.”
“His T-ball squad adored him,” she said. “He was coaching his son’s T-ball squad for a mates of years.”
Garcia said the household was readying to observe Robles’ day successful a mates of weeks.
“Now we are readying his ceremonial for that weekend,” she said.
Contact Glenn Puit astatine gpuit@reviewjournal.com.
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