A twenty six year old Las Vegas woman is in custody at the Clark County Detention Center awaiting a hearing on charges that she murdered her roommate in her apartment near Warmsprings and El Capitan Way. Police responded to a call of shots fired at around 9pm on Thursday night. Mary Pitrello was arrested while accompanied by an unidentified female companion at a downtown casino.
Witnesses described seeing two women flee into a vehicle with one carrying what looked like a shotgun after the gunfire. Reports indicate the male roommate was in his bedroom on the telephone after a domestic argument when the suspect fired a shotgun through the bedroom door killing the man at the scene.
Pitrello was booked into CCDC early on the 13th on charges of 1st degree murder, robbery with a deadly weapon, and assault with a deadly weapon. She is due in the Las Vegas Justice Court first thing Tuesday morning according to online jail records. A bail amount has not been set on the murder charge which is standard protocol during the first several days when charged with that count. It is not clear if the defendant has made any pre-arrangement with a Las Vegas bail bondsman.
Witnesses described seeing two women flee into a vehicle with one carrying what looked like a shotgun after the gunfire. Reports indicate the male roommate was in his bedroom on the telephone after a domestic argument when the suspect fired a shotgun through the bedroom door killing the man at the scene.
Pitrello was booked into CCDC early on the 13th on charges of 1st degree murder, robbery with a deadly weapon, and assault with a deadly weapon. She is due in the Las Vegas Justice Court first thing Tuesday morning according to online jail records. A bail amount has not been set on the murder charge which is standard protocol during the first several days when charged with that count. It is not clear if the defendant has made any pre-arrangement with a Las Vegas bail bondsman.
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