The man and woman said to have shot and killed two police officers and a third person in Las Vegas Sunday bragged that they had been involved in the recent standoff with the federal government at Cliven Bundy’s Nevada ranch, neighbors of the pair have told local Nevada papers. And early reports suggest the couple may have been motivated by anti-government extremism.
The couple shot two Las Vegas police officers who were eating lunch at a pizza restaurant, then minutes later killed a third person at a nearby Wal-Mart. The woman then killed the man before turning the gun on herself, in what police have said was an apparent suicide pact.
A law enforcement source with knowledge of the situation told NBC the suspects were Jerad Miller and Amanda Miller. The two slain officers have been identified by police as Alyn Beck, 41, and Igor Soldo, 31. The Clark County Coroner’s Office identified the person killed at the Wal-Mart as Joseph Robert Wilcox, 31.
“What precipitated this event we do not know,” Sheriff Doug Gillespie said at a press conference Sunday. But in news reports, a preliminary picture of the shooters as radical anti-government extremists has begun to emerge.
The Las Vegas Sun reported that residents of the apartment building where the Millers lived said they “had a reputation for spouting racist, anti-government views, bragging about their gun collection, and boasting that they’d spent time at Cliven Bundy’s ranch during a recent standoff there between armed militia members and federal government agents.”









