Suspected Shooter of Vegas Uber Driver Has History of Threatening, Reckless Driving: Report

Posted on: December 4, 2024, 09:01h. 

Last updated on: December 4, 2024, 10:20h.

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The woman accused of shooting and killing an Uber driver on the Las Vegas Strip following a road rage incident last month previously threatened someone with a gun at a restaurant, news reports revealed.

In May, the 24-year-old female allegedly grabbed and threatened another woman during a dispute in a Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant parking lot, Las Vegas TV station KLAS reported this week.

The unnamed 24-year-old suspect had been told by a restaurant employee that she would have to wait for a table after the suspect reportedly cut the line. The woman responded, “Oh you mean for this [expletive]?”

Victim Was Grabbed, Threatened

The unnamed suspect then followed a woman, who also had been in line, into the lot, grabbed her, pulled out a firearm, and told her, “Yeah, try something now,” the report added. She then allegedly “parked directly behind [the victim], which prevent[ed] [her] from exiting the parking lot,” KLAS reported, quoting police documents.

The suspect exited her vehicle, walked over to the victim’s vehicle, and kicked the rear passenger quarter panel, “causing a significant dent,” police said.

The 24-year-old also attempted to get the victim to step out of her vehicle so they could fight, police added. The suspect was later arrested and charged with battery and drawing a deadly weapon in connection with the May confrontation, KLAS reported.

Taxi Driver Reports Speeding, Collision

On November 25, the same suspect allegedly was driving recklessly on the Las Vegas Strip before becoming involved in a road rage incident that led to the shooting of an Uber driver, according to KLAS.

At 3:40 p.m. — 20 minutes before the shooting — a taxi driver reported to police that someone was driving recklessly on Las Vegas Boulevard. The woman was weaving in and out of traffic and speeding near the Bellagio Hotel & Casino, the taxi driver claimed.

He [sic] hit another cab, and I pulled down my window to tell him to ‘calm down,’ because I know he was trying to come for me too,” the taxi driver revealed.”

Even though the taxi driver said the other driver was a male, LVMPD said the description of the vehicle, a silver Subaru WRX, matched the one the woman was driving at the time of the fatal shooting.

After striking the taxi, the woman continued to drive in a construction area, police said. At the time, some lanes on Las Vegas Boulevard also were closed or blocked because of the Las Vegas Grand Prix.

The Uber driver was also armed, but collapsed on Las Vegas Boulevard from the fatal wound before he could aim his firearm. He was identified as Michael Wilmot, 50.

A short time later, a passenger in Wilmot’s vehicle revealed in a 911 call, “It was a road rage thing. They shot him and drove off.”

Reckless Operation on I-95

Half an hour after the shooting near the Palazzo, another driver alerted police that a motorist had come close to striking her vehicle on US 95.

There was a car that almost hit me, and it was swerving in between cars. Like literally cutting cars off,” the woman told the dispatcher.

The description of that vehicle was similar to the one involved in the deadly shooting on the Strip, police revealed.

After getting the license plate number of the driver’s Subaru, the alleged shooter was located by cops at her Las Vegas residence near Washington Avenue and Torrey Pines Drive.

The 24-year-old woman was questioned by the LVMPD in connection with the November 25 shooting but hasn’t been arrested for that incident at this time.

The case is being reviewed by the Clark County District Attorney’s office to see if it was an act of self-defense, according to news reports.