LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – Imploring a police dispatcher to “hurry the [expletive] up,” a 10-minute 911 call obtained by Nexstar’s KLAS captures the harrowing moments when a Nevada man called to report an urgent threat of people “shooting at the house” before police officers kicked in the door and shot and killed him.
The caller, later identified as the homeowner, Brandon Durham, 43, of Las Vegas, died at the scene on Nov. 12. Police said he was officially pronounced dead at a hospital a short time later.
Just before the shooting, Durham had been struggling with his attacker, identified as Alejandra Boudreaux, 31, when an officer entered the home and observed the two fighting over a knife, Metro police said. Boudreaux has since been charged with home invasion and assault, among other charges.
But in the moments before police arrived, the dispatcher was collecting as many details as possible from Durham on the 911 call, many of them delivered in a low whisper and apparent terror while he and his daughter were hiding, fearing for their lives.
Explaining the play-by-play of the home invasion to the dispatcher, who said police were on their way, Durham remarked, “I don’t think I’ll be alive by then.”
“They’re trying to get in the house,” Durham said shortly before saying, “They’re inside. They’re coming.” The recording appears to contain audible slamming and thumping.
A moment later, Durham tells the dispatcher, “They’re trying to blow up the house with gas.”
Almost immediately after that, the audio recording captures a major commotion and Durham says little to nothing else before first responders can be heard speaking for the first time, discussing how to render aid.
“Do you have gloves?” one responder is heard asking several times.
Another voice is heard screaming while the responders, presumably police, survey the aftermath.
“Where’s the gun?” one responder soon asks.
The dispatcher on the call with Durham during the entire episode is heard asking, “Hello? Can anyone hear me?”
Another caller reported the initial incident in real time, saying someone was at her neighbor’s house “attacking his home with bricks.” She told a dispatcher that one person had broken his windows and corroborated the victim’s description that the person was wearing a hoodie.
“Oh my gosh, he just got in the house,” she said, adding that the person “broke through the window.”
She also said they “destroyed the top of his car” and that “his windshield is a mess.”
KLAS originally reported that a Metro police officer — later identified as Alexander Bookman, 26 — shot and killed Durham after he called 911. Durham told a dispatcher that he was inside the home with his 15-year-old daughter. He said he was locking himself in the bathroom as the two people entered his home.
Body-camera video of the encounter showed Bookman enter a hallway and say, “Drop the knife,” before firing one initial shot at Durham and then five additional shots after Durham had stumbled backward and eventually to the ground.
After the shooting, Boudreaux told police she broke into the home in an attempt to get police to shoot and kill her, according to documents KLAS first obtained Monday.
Records KLAS obtained Tuesday reveal officers were called to Durham’s home late on the evening of Nov. 10 — about 24 hours before the fatal shooting — for a disturbance. Durham, who was not home when he made the call around 11:30 p.m. that day, told police his “ex-friend” named “Marie” refused to leave, according to documents. “Marie” is Boudreaux’s middle name, according to records.
Bookman arrived at the house around 12:11 a.m. Police notes indicate that at 12:40 a.m., Boudreaux “agreed to leave” and left for Harry Reid International Airport, records said.
The officer who made the note that Boudreaux “packed up” and left was Bookman.
Boudreaux faces a count of home invasion with a deadly weapon, a count of assault with a deadly weapon (domestic violence), a count of child abuse, neglect, or endangerment, and a count of performance of an act in willful or wanton disregard of the safety of a person
resulting in death.
