LAS VEGAS -- The search has widened to the southeastern U.S. for a 26-year-old man who police call the prime suspect in a shooting and fiery crash that killed three last week on the Las Vegas Strip.
Las Vegas police Capt. Chris Jones said Monday that investigators are tracing places where Ammar Harris has lived and worked in the past.
Public records show Harris lived in South Carolina and Georgia; was convicted in Atlanta in 2005 of marijuana possession; and was arrested in Miami in December on a reckless driving charge.
Harris also was arrested in June 2010 in Las Vegas on pandering, kidnapping, sex assault and coercion charges.
Investigators believe Harris was the driver and the gunman who fired shots from a black Range Rover SUV into a Maserati early Thursday at the heart of the Strip. Police say the gunfire killed aspiring rapper Kenny Cherry Jr. The shooting resulted in a six-vehicle car crash that resulted in a taxi cab exploding and killing the driver and passenger, a woman from Washington state.
Over the weekend, police found Harris' Range Rover parked at the Meridian condominium complex, not far from where the deadly shooting and crash took place. Police used flash bang grenades to get into Harris' unit but did not find him there.
Harris has an extensive criminal history which includes arrests for pandering with use of force, robbery, sexual assault, ex-felon with possession of a concealed weapon, kidnapping and coercion with the use of a deadly weapon. Metro Police say Harris should be considered armed and dangerous.
Metro Police Captain Chris Jones said, in an afternoon news conference, Metro's entire homicide division is focused on this case. Police also promised to arrest anyone in connection with the case who aids and abets Harris.
There were other individuals in the Range Rover at the time of the shooting. Jones said, Harris is the only person believed to have shot at Cherry.
(The Associated Press contributed to this report.)
Ammar Harris is wanted in connection with a deadly shooting and crash on the Las Vegas Strip.
The deadly crash happened around 4:30 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 21.
