LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — Las Vegas police are outlining new details in the ongoing investigation into a shooting involving police officers that left a man and a child hostage dead on Tuesday.
Asst. Sheriff Bryan Peterson shared new information in a media briefing on Thursday afternoon, describing the tense and dynamic situation officers encountered when they were called to an apartment complex in the 8400 block of South Maryland Parkway at 1:19 a.m.
Watch the full media briefing with Asst. Sheriff Bryan Peterson here:
During the encounter, two police officers fired at 28-year-old Quinton Baker, who police say was holding his child hostage with a gun.
"The suspect approached the officers, still holding the juvenile hostage, causing our officers to discharge their firearms, striking the suspect," Capt. Andrew Wiggins said previously. "Simultaneously, the suspect, while pointing his firearm in the direction of the juvenile, discharged the firearm."
Both Baker and the child were killed.
These events unfolded after officers with the Enterprise Area Command responded to a 911 call reporting a domestic violence situation, and that a man — since identified as Baker — had threatened to kill a woman and her child.
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Police: Suspect and juvenile hostage dead following shooting on Maryland Parkway
Peterson played audio from a 911 call police received in which a woman says, "He's threatening to kill me and my son. He literally beat me downstairs."
The woman told police Baker had pointed a gun at her and told her, "If you don't tell them [the police] to call this s— off and they try to come up these stairs, I'm blowing the child's brains out and I'm blowing mine out," Peterson said.
Shortly after police arrived, body camera footage shows Baker come downstairs carrying his 3-year-old child in his arms, with a gun pointed at the child's chest. Peterson said he refused to comply with any officers' commands, walking toward the police and telling them he wanted to see the child's mom and was going to kill himself.
Two officers fired their weapons, while "simultaneously, Baker discharged his firearm five times," Peterson said. Both Baker and the child were struck by gunfire.
"To get the child to an ambulance as quickly as possible, one officer picked him up and ran 325 yards — that's the length of three football fields — to medical personnel who were staged at the front of the apartment complex," Peterson said.
The child was rushed to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Baker was pronounced dead at the scene.
Peterson said detectives have since determined the child was "struck in the head by a close-contact gunshot wound when the suspect discharged his weapon." One of the rounds ricocheted and hit an officer in the foot, he added.
An autopsy revealed the child had three gunshot wounds — two "close-quarter" wounds that investigators determined came from his father, Peterson said. The child also had one gunshot wound to the leg. Peterson said there will be "further investigation to determine where that round came from."
The forensic investigation has since found that Baker fired at least seven rounds from a handgun during the incident, Peterson said, two of which were shot at a vehicle leaving the apartment parking lot before officers arrived.
Two LVMPD officers, since identified as Jonathan Lo and Damon O'Donnell, fired a combined five rounds. Lo, armed with a rifle, fired three rounds, and O'Donnell, armed with a handgun, fired two rounds, police said.
Lo, 39, has been with LVMPD since 2019, and O'Donnell, 26, joined the department in 2024, officials said.
