Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Assistant Sheriff Kevin McMahill, right, speaks during a news conference Wednesday, June 11, 2014 in Las Vegas. On the left of McMahill is Sheriff Dough Gillespie. Police showed a short surveillance video of suspects Jerad Miller and Amanda Miller in a Wal-Mart during a shootout with police.LAS VEGAS – Las Vegas police said Wednesday that detectives talked on three occasions earlier this year with a married couple who killed two officers in a pizza shop and a good Samaritan in a nearby store, but they didn’t express the extreme anti-authority views that apparently led to the rampage.
After shooting the patrol officers at the restaurant, the couple went to a nearby Wal-Mart, announced they were starting a revolution and shot a man with a gun who tried to stop them before they died by gunfire. Authorities are still investigating what sparked the carnage.
“This continues to be a massive ongoing investigation,” said Assistant Clark County Sheriff Kevin McMahill, who corrected earlier reports that the woman, Amanda Miller, shot her husband, Jerad Miller, when they were cornered in the back of the store.
In fact, Jerad Miller was fatally wounded by gunfire from at least one of three officers who fired shots as they closed in on the couple, McMahill said.
Department officials released a 23-second store security video clip showing the last moments of the Millers’ lives, including narration by a store guard saying Amanda Miller appeared to shoot her husband as they lay on the floor.