A CIA computer systems contractor was fatally shot outside a Las Vegas shopping center on Tuesday, and a retired Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) officer has been arrested.
Robert Hoy, 69, “was a good man,” said his widow, Kathleen Hoy. Las Vegas Review-Journal.
‘A good man’: Woman says man killed in parking lot had done contract work for the CIA https://t.co/GGpI0yE9Gh
— MYVEGAS Magazine (@MYVEGASMagazine) November 25, 2023
Every day he took the couple’s autistic daughter to Opportunity Village, which provides services for people with intellectual disabilities.
“I’m a single carer now,” Kathleen said.
Robert was at Walmart, picking up a prescription, Tuesday afternoon. He called his wife at about 1:15 p.m. to ask if she wanted him to get food.
It was the last time she heard from her husband, with whom she was hoping to celebrate 36 years of marriage on December 6.
Robert’s lifelong friend Bruce Moore had initially told the Review-Journal that the victim was a retired CIA agent, but Kathleen corrected the record, saying her husband did contract work for the agency
Robert liked to talk about the places he had visited, including the Middle East, while under contract with the CIA, Kathleen explained, and that’s what likely led to Moore’s statement. Robert had also worked for large companies such as FEMA and Boeing as a computer systems engineer.
LVMPD officers responded to a reported shooting in the 7200 block of Arroyo Crossing Parkway in the southwest Las Vegas Valley, known as “Spring Valley,” it said. 8 News now.
#BREAKING We are investigating a shooting in the 7200 block of Arroyo Crossing (215 and Rainbow)
One person was hit by gunfire and pronounced dead.
The officers have a person in custody. This is an active scene. Please avoid the area and watch for responding units. pic.twitter.com/kf1tG5y3vQ— LVMPD (@LVMPD) November 21, 2023
They found Robert, shot and transported to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Timothy Hatchett, captain of the city’s homicide unit, he called the shooting “an isolated incident.”
While no suspects have been arrested in the shooting, 8 News Now reported, “A person who was taken into custody by Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department officers has been identified as a retired LVMPD officer, officials said sources”.
“Officials say the department’s homicide section will take over the investigation,” the outlet added.
It’s unclear what led to the shooting.
Sin City has been in the headlines for the past few weeks, for all the wrong reasons.
How BizPac Review It reported that eight teenagers were arrested earlier this month on suspicion of murder after they allegedly beat to death defenseless Las Vegas high school student Jonathan Lewis, 17.
8 Teens Arrested in Beating White Las Vegas High School Student to Death: Police Say No Evidence of ‘Hate Crime’ https://t.co/UPDQLV4SP6 road @BIZPACRevision
— Based on BPR (@DumpstrFireNews) November 15, 2023
According to Undersheriff Andrew Walsh, the suspects in the wild attack were between 13 and 17 years old. The suspects are black, Lewis was white, and Las Vegas authorities are doing everything they can to avoid calling the beating a hate crime.
Las Vegas Police Lt. Jason Johannson called the video of the incident “a disgrace to humanity,” but said there was “no evidence that the incident could be considered a hate crime,” he reported KLAS.
Lewis was attacked after he stepped in to defend his friend during a fight over stolen headphones and possibly a stolen marijuana pen.
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