Whitey Ford
08-24-2023, 12:05 AM
Las Vegas man accused of killing ex-wife, wounding others after divorce hearing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7gj2jDrm2E
Marillorky Tamayo Cruz had won custody of her two daughters the day police said she was shot by her estranged husband.
Her 14-year-old daughter told police when she got home from school on Thursday that Tamayo Cruz told her she would keep the house and truck and had gained full custody of the teenager and her 2-year-old sister, according to an arrest report from the Metropolitan Police Department.
Moments later, Roidan Durruthy-Mendoza, 38, started climbing the balcony of Tamayo Cruz’s parents house at Destinations Spring Valley apartment complex, 3925 S. Jones Blvd. according to the arrest report.
https://i.ibb.co/Kjmg3bX/Roidan-Durruthy-Mendoza-LVMPD-Marillorky-Tamayo-Cruz-and-the-apartment-complex-where-she-was-killed.jpg
Police said Durruthy-Mendoza kicked down the door to the room, grabbed the woman by her hair, pulled her back and shot her three times before he left the room and headed toward another bedroom.
Tamayo Cruz’s sister, brother-in-law and parents barricaded the door to the bedroom they were hiding in, but Durruthy-Mendoza shot through it, according to the arrest report.
Loaiza said Tamayo Cruz’s mother, Marilu Cruz-Tamayo, was shot in the eye and her brother in law, Ivan Brizuela-Esparza, was shot in the elbow. When Durruthy-Mendoza broke down the door the family was barricading, the 14-year-old girl, Miriam Martinez, stabbed him in the back with a knife.
Forty-five minutes after the shooting, Durruthy-Mendoza turned himself in at Metro’s headquarters. He told police simply, “I killed my wife,” according to the arrest report.
https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/homicides/woman-killed-in-front-of-children-was-divorcing-suspect-police-say-2892743/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7gj2jDrm2E
Marillorky Tamayo Cruz had won custody of her two daughters the day police said she was shot by her estranged husband.
Her 14-year-old daughter told police when she got home from school on Thursday that Tamayo Cruz told her she would keep the house and truck and had gained full custody of the teenager and her 2-year-old sister, according to an arrest report from the Metropolitan Police Department.
Moments later, Roidan Durruthy-Mendoza, 38, started climbing the balcony of Tamayo Cruz’s parents house at Destinations Spring Valley apartment complex, 3925 S. Jones Blvd. according to the arrest report.
https://i.ibb.co/Kjmg3bX/Roidan-Durruthy-Mendoza-LVMPD-Marillorky-Tamayo-Cruz-and-the-apartment-complex-where-she-was-killed.jpg
Police said Durruthy-Mendoza kicked down the door to the room, grabbed the woman by her hair, pulled her back and shot her three times before he left the room and headed toward another bedroom.
Tamayo Cruz’s sister, brother-in-law and parents barricaded the door to the bedroom they were hiding in, but Durruthy-Mendoza shot through it, according to the arrest report.
Loaiza said Tamayo Cruz’s mother, Marilu Cruz-Tamayo, was shot in the eye and her brother in law, Ivan Brizuela-Esparza, was shot in the elbow. When Durruthy-Mendoza broke down the door the family was barricading, the 14-year-old girl, Miriam Martinez, stabbed him in the back with a knife.
Forty-five minutes after the shooting, Durruthy-Mendoza turned himself in at Metro’s headquarters. He told police simply, “I killed my wife,” according to the arrest report.
https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/homicides/woman-killed-in-front-of-children-was-divorcing-suspect-police-say-2892743/