A justice acceptable bail astatine $25,000 Tuesday for a suspect successful the melee that led to 2 shootings astatine a Las Vegas Walmart.
The bail magnitude that Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Harmony Letizia ordered for Raqiya Smith matched the $25,000 bail different justice antecedently ordered for co-defendant Ameea Blue.
Authorities said 28-year-old Kwame Swain was warring with his girlfriend, Zsejhuana Saunders, extracurricular the store astatine 5198 Boulder Highway erstwhile Smith, 25, and Blue, 30, approached astir 6 a.m. July 21.
Swain “said something” to them, Blue tried to punch Swain, who swung back, and Saunders tried to interruption up the ensuing combat earlier Smith punched her, according to a Metropolitan Police Department report, which did not elaborate connected the speech of words.
Smith past called her husband, Travis Ward, constabulary said. Witnesses would aboriginal archer investigators they heard her archer him to bring a gun.
Raqiya Smith appears successful tribunal Tuesday, July 28, 2026, successful Las Vegas. Smith is simply a fishy successful the melee that led to 2 shootings astatine a Las Vegas Walmart. (Sam Morris/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Ward obliged, driving to the Walmart and shooting Swain, who survived but was hospitalized. Metro said serviceman Cristobal Magana responded and fatally changeable Ward arsenic helium ran from the store with a weapon successful his hand.
Body camera video shows that Magana fired immoderate of the shots arsenic Ward fled with his backmost to the officer.
Deputy District Attorney Wendy Antebi argued successful tribunal Tuesday that Smith should enactment successful custody due to the fact that she had aggregate warrants and faced a antecedently suspended condemnation successful a 2022 theft and artillery case.
The authoritative said Smith’s bail should beryllium $30,000 if the suspect was not detained. Prosecutors were acrophobic astir Smith returning to tribunal and staying retired of trouble, Antebi said.
Defense lawyer Ashley Sisolak asked for Smith’s bail to beryllium acceptable astatine $25,000, arguing that she and Blue were “similarly situated” and that the cases detaining her were misdemeanors.
“The quality successful $5,000 is insane for idiosyncratic who is indigent,” Sisolak said.
Both defendants were ordered to beryllium taxable to high-level physics monitoring if released, enactment distant from the Walmart and person nary interaction with the victim.
Asked for remark aft court, Blue’s defence lawyer Paul Adras urged the nationalist to reserve judgement and fto the ineligible process tally its course.
Contact Noble Brigham astatine nbrigham@reviewjournal.com.
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