This photo provided by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department shows Ammar Harris in a booking photo from a 2012 arrest in Las Vegas. Las Vegas police Capt. Chris Jones says Ammar Harris was arrested Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013 by a team of police and federal agents in North Hollywood, Calif. The 26-year-old is a self-described pimp who was the subject of a multi-state manhunt following the Feb. 21 gunfire and chain-reaction crash that killed three and injured at least five. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department)
Police detail 9 minutes before Las Vegas fireball
This photo provided by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department shows Ammar Harris in a booking photo from a 2012 arrest in Las Vegas. Las Vegas police Capt. Chris Jones says Ammar Harris was arrested Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013 by a team of police and federal agents in North Hollywood, Calif. The 26-year-old is a self-described pimp who was the subject of a multi-state manhunt following the Feb. 21 gunfire and chain-reaction crash that killed three and injured at least five. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department)
By KEN RITTER
Associated Press /
March 1, 2013
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At a stop light, the Range Rover pulled next to the Maserati and the taxi driver told police the two drivers exchanged words.
A horn sounded as the Range Rover pulled into the path of the Maserati on the boulevard in front of the famous Bellagio fountains, then close alongside.
Police say Harris leaned across the front-seat passenger in his SUV and fired one gunshot into the driver’s side of the Maserati. The taxi video shows the cars jockeying into several positions approaching Flamingo Road as two other shots are fired, then three more.
The intersection was soon filled with flames and crashed cars.
The SUV was found two days later at an apartment complex near the Strip, triggering the manhunt. Harris’ arrest at an apartment in the Studio City area came about 16 hours after the last of the three women who were with him in the SUV was found by police. She had boarded an eastbound interstate bus on Wednesday in Los Angeles.
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