Most of America first saw his face and learned his name Thursday, when Las Vegas police announced the 19-year-old’s arrest in connection to what they called a road rage incident February 12 that ended with a mother of four mortally wounded by a gunshot.
LVMPD Homicide detectives have arrested the suspect in the February 12th road rage shooting incident. pic.twitter.com/gnSKokTNaZ
But at least for a brief period two years ago, Nowsch seemingly had no qualms about putting himself out there on social media.
The profile photo on what appears to be his Facebook page, last updated in January 2013, shows him with his tongue wagging, his hand tattooed, with a ballcap on his head and thick chain around his neck. He’s holding what appears to be a wad of cash, including at least one $100 bill.
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It was then that Robert Meyers first told reporters that Nowsch and his wife had known each other for some time.
His wife had spent “countless hours at the park consoling this boy,” he said. “She was really good to him. She fed him, she gave him money.
“She told him to pull his pants up and to be a man,” Robert Meyers added. “More times than I can count.”
CNN’s Sara Sidner, Steve Almasy, Amanda Watts and AnneClaire Stapleton contributed to this report.
