LAS VEGAS (KSNV) — Newly obtained surveillance video is providing a closer look at the moments leading up to the deadly shooting inside the Smith’s grocery store near Maryland Parkway and Silverado Ranch on May 12.
The videos detail a five-hour timeline that begins with suspect Alejandro Estrada leaving his North Las Vegas home, ending with the deadly shooting at the Smith’s.
According to the surveillance, Estrada left his home around 6:45 a.m. that Tuesday.
Three and a half hours later, surveillance video from what investigators say appears to be the neighborhood where Estrada’s former spouse, Amanda Frias Rosas, and her husband, Victor, lived shows Estrada walking toward the area around 10:15 a.m.
Evidence from Estrada’s arrest report shows the doorbell camera at the home had been ripped off. Detectives also documented that the home appeared to have been ransacked and that the rear sliding glass door had been shattered. A spent bullet and casing were also recovered from the home.
About an hour later, additional surveillance video shows Estrada arriving at the Smith’s grocery store, where prosecutors say Frias Rosas and Victor worked.
Video from inside the store shows shoppers and employees reacting as gunfire erupts. One witness described the panic inside.
“All of a sudden, we hear the shots, like maybe three shots or four shots- one, two, three, four then everybody panicked inside. Everybody tried to exit; it’s just a split second, and then after maybe a few seconds another shot again, I think that when the second person that got shot,” said.
After the shooting that left Amanda and Victor Frias Rosas dead, surveillance video shows several bystanders confronting Estrada outside the Smith’s attempting to restrain him.
According to police, Estrada’s backpack contained an additional firearm and a magazine of ammunition.
One bystander described the struggle to keep Estrada away from his weapon.
“That is when I am like, help, so I am pulling the gun away from him. That is when he comes over, hits him, strikes him, keeps him on the ground. I move all of the weapons and move them away from him,” said Merconie Clark. “I noticed Clark, and he grabs the dude, and he is trying to get the gun away from him. So, when I saw Clark, I went over there, and I am helping Clark because now Clark’s life is in danger,” Darius Alston added.
“These two gentlemen I would consider innocent bystanders who took the lead in wrestling this man to the ground in disarming him, and but for that to could have been much worse,”
Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson later credited the two men who intervened, saying their actions may have helped prevent further violence.
“These two gentlemen I would consider innocent bystanders who took the lead in wrestling this man to the ground in disarming him and but for that it could have been much worse,” Wolfson said.
Estrada is currently facing more than a dozen felony charges. He is scheduled to return to court for a continued arraignment hearing on July 30.
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