Apparently, Las Vegas cops don’t like people reporting home invasions. Especially not when the same person calls in two reports in two days, about the same intruder. The second time the irate cop had to go to the same address for the same thing, he shot the guy who kept calling. Brandon Durham will never bother them again.
Cops have no excuse
The Las Vegas cops who made this fatal error in judgment have no excuse. The officer who pulled the trigger had interacted with both the now deceased homeowner and his mentally unbalanced female intruder the day before.
He “knew or should have known,” as lawyers like to write in lawsuits, which party was the innocent victim and which one was the aggressor. Police murdered the victim.
Brandon Durham dialed 911 on November 12, as someone was breaking into his home. He pleaded for officers to arrive “ASAP.” He told them the trespasser was “going to kill everybody.” That would be himself and his 15-year-old daughter, asleep in another room.
Cops also got a call from a neighbor reporting a disturbance. They arrived quickly and killed Brandon, doing the intruder’s job for her.
The audio recording of the phone call confirms the 43-year-old homeowner “told a police dispatcher that he feared for his life after hearing what he described as sounds of guns fired around the front and side of his home.”
Speaking in a hushed voice, Durham “responded to the dispatcher’s questions for more than seven minutes as he frantically reacted to noises coming from outside.” As cops were on the way, the caller explained “that he might know who the trespasser was.” Events distracted him from saying more about that at the time.
Shot by police
Things were escalating quickly. “They’re inside. They’re coming. They’re trying to blow up the house with gas,” Durham told the dispatcher. He was still on the line as “he was caught in a confrontation with the trespasser and then shot by police.”
Body camera footage shows Durham struggling to subdue his attacker as cops appeared on scene. They had been given a description of the suspect ahead of arrival.
Later, at the police station, the assailant was identified as Alejandra Boudreaux. She “told authorities she was in a casual relationship with Durham.” When cops got there she was “in a physical struggle” with him until police fired six rounds, all at Durham.
All six were fired by officer Alexander Bookman. The same officer who had responded to a disturbance at the same location between the same people the day before. The audio track also captured “shrilling cries from another person in the house.” That was Durham’s daughter.
The neighbor’s 911 call came in shortly before police arrived. The caller related that someone outside Durham’s house “destroyed the top of his car” outside and was using bricks to smash open the house’s front entrance. The neighbor clearly described the trespasser as wearing “a hoodie, beanie and dark pants.”
While being booked in on “multiple charges including assault with a deadly weapon, home invasion with a deadly weapon, domestic violence and child abuse,” Boudreaux “admitted to feeling suicidal in the days leading up to the home invasion and hoped that she would’ve been shot and killed by police.” She didn’t expect cops to kill Durham instead.
