A 7-year-old boy placed a heartbreaking 911 call after finding his mother shot dead inside their Las Vegas home just days after she feared someone was watching her through the window.
Amill McClelland contacted emergency dispatchers on January 28 when he located Briana Flowers and her friend Anfernee Pollard unresponsive inside the residence.
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department reached the property around 7:20 a.m. and found both adults suffering from critical gunshot wounds.
Police attempted lifesaving measures until paramedics arrived, but Flowers and Pollard, who were both 31, were pronounced dead at the scene.
Detectives have not identified a suspect as they investigate the case as a double homicide.
Flowers’ family and close friends now point to troubling encounters involving her former boyfriend in the week before the shooting.
Authorities have not confirmed whether those prior events connect to the killings.
Shatiera Davis, a longtime friend and McClelland’s godmother, described a disturbing phone call from Flowers on January 21.
“She basically told me her ex-boyfriend had tried to kill her,” Davis recalled while speaking to a local outlet.
Davis said Flowers contacted police after she was left with bruises that required medical attention. Law enforcement has not publicly identified the ex-boyfriend.
Flowers also confided that someone had been watching her while she slept.
“She saw someone looking in her blinds in her house while she was asleep,” Davis recounted.
“She told me, she said, I just had a feeling to wake up and I looked out my window and someone was staring at me,” Davis added.
Flowers stepped outside after spotting the figure and believed she saw her former partner getting into an Uber.
Davis said Flowers had also been ignoring repeated calls from an unknown number in the days leading up to her death.
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Friends had begun staying overnight at the home so Flowers would not be alone, including Pollard. That effort to create safety ended in tragedy when both were gunned down inside the house.
Investigators have not confirmed any link between the alleged stalking behavior and the fatal shooting. Detectives continue reviewing evidence while family members search for answers.
The Las Vegas case arrives amid other violent crimes across several states that involve domestic conflict and relationship disputes turning deadly.
In Arizona, investigators accused a 27-year-old man of killing an 18-year-old woman after meeting her through a dating app.
Yessenia Norman left her transitional housing facility on January 15 to meet the man and was reported missing four days later.
Authorities discovered her body on January 28 inside an apartment in Tolleson.
Court records state she had been stabbed 27 times and her body was covered with blankets and towels.
Police allege the apartment belonged to Randal Basilio Santillan. Officers tracked his vehicle across multiple states before arresting him in Biloxi, Mississippi.
He remains in the Harrison County Adult Detention Center awaiting extradition to Arizona, where he faces charges of first-degree murder and kidnapping.
“I can’t imagine,” Norman’s mother, Jessica Calderon, said while reacting to the arrest. “I just can’t imagine. Who would do that to her? I just don’t understand.”
Texas prosecutors also secured a conviction in a separate domestic homicide case.
Brandon Dickerson, 30, pleaded guilty to murdering his wife, 23-year-old Alexis Walls, after admitting he shot her multiple times in February 2025.
Court documents show Dickerson called 911 and told dispatchers he had killed the mother of his child. Officers arrived at the Bryan residence around 1 a.m. and found Walls dead.
Investigators determined she had been shot 15 times. Authorities said Dickerson told detectives he believed she was cheating on him.
The couple’s 18-month-old child was inside the home during the shooting and was not harmed. The child now lives with Walls’ parents.
A judge sentenced Dickerson to 50 years in prison. Prosecutors reflected on Walls in a written statement.
“Alexis was a light to everyone she met,” the prosecution team said. “She was a loving mother, a beautiful daughter and a considerate friend. She will be missed dearly by her family and friends, but her memory will live forever in their hearts.”
Nevada officials also resolved a long-standing murder case tied to an ex-boyfriend confrontation.
Jonathan Romero pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the 2008 killing of 18-year-old David Manriquez.
Grand jury testimony detailed how Romero forced entry into a Las Vegas home months after his relationship ended.
“He looks into the room on the left and then he goes into the master bedroom and David was hiding … hiding in the closet,” the former girlfriend testified.
“[Manriquez] tries to stop him and then [Romero] shot him in the back of his head,” she told jurors while recounting the encounter.
A detective described the aftermath before the grand jury. “There was a blood trail that led from inside the house out the front door and down, I want to say, several blocks,” the detective testified.
Romero avoided capture for more than 15 years before authorities located him in Mexico in May 2025.
He now faces a prison term between 20 and 50 years, with credit for time served, and is scheduled to be sentenced on March 26.
