According to the documents, Erich Milton Nowsch told the two
friends he fired 22 times at a green car after a cat-and-mouse car
chase through his neighborhood just a few miles from the famed Las
Vegas strip, and knew that he had shot someone when it was over.
Tammy Meyers, 44, was struck by a single bullet to the head on the
night of Feb. 12 while in her green Buick Park Avenue outside her
home. She died two days later after being taken off life support.
Police say Meyers was shot minutes after she was involved in a
road-rage altercation with the occupants of a silver sedan, while
heading home after giving her 15-year-old daughter a driving lesson.
Nowsch was arrested on Thursday at a home just blocks from the scene
of the shooting, which stunned the desert resort city, and was
charged with murder and attempted murder. Police say they are still
searching for at least one more suspect.
![](http://archives.lincolndailynews.com/2015/Feb/21/images/ads/current/hicksgas_sda_022015.gif) During the incident, a man got out of the sedan and threatened: "I'm
gonna come back for you and your daughter," according to the girl's
account of the incident, which is also contained in the documents.
Police say that after that threat Tammy Meyers drove home, dropped
off her daughter. Her 22-year-old son, Brandon, got in the car
carrying a loaded handgun.
Brandon Meyers told police that his mother then pursued the silver
sedan. A passenger fired at them before the two vehicles met up in
front of the Meyers home.
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There, he said, the passenger shot at them again and Brandon Meyers
returned fire. He saw his mother lying on the ground, bleeding from
the head.
According to the warrants, Nowsch's two friends told detectives he
came to their apartment and told them that he "got those kids, they
were after me, and I got them," according to the affidavit. Nowsch
also showed them a handgun.
Nowsch denied involvement in the shooting when questioned by police,
according to the documents. He is scheduled for an initial court
appearance on Monday.
(Reporting by Dan Whitcomb in Los Angeles; Editing by Eric Beech)
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