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Police Reveal Las Vegas Dad Killed Ex-Wife During Son's Birthday Trip—'Nuisance' Confession Seals His Fate

A Las Vegas man killed his ex-wife and her husband due to a custody dispute amidst financial strain.

By Diksha
A 43-year-old Las Vegas man, Alejandro Estrada, murdered his ex-wife and her new husband over custody and child support amid financial issues. He shot dead the couple in a grocery store when they were buying a birthday cake for their son. After the murder, he left custody papers alongside his ex-wife, Amanda Frias Rosas' body. According to KLAS, Rosas and her husband Victor Frias Rosas were not working on May 12 and went to the store to buy a cake for her son. The tragedy has left behind two children: Rosas' son, who turned 12 that day, and a 10-year-old daughter. According to the court documents, Estrada shot both of them "approximately two to three times, two to four times,' proving his goal was to kill them. When they dropped dead, he reached into his backpack to take out the child custody documents and place them under his ex-wife's arm. The witnesses at the store restrained Estrada before his testimony. A witness told a news outlet how calm Estrada was after committing the murder: "No expression. No, nothing." He left the papers there to let the police know the motive behind the murder. He planned the murder. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department homicide detective Brandon Copley revealed, "He knew that murdering people was bad, but he had felt that over the last few years everything that Amanda had been trying to do with him in the form of obtaining financial support for their children kind of justified this action." Estrada explained to Copley that he killed her new husband because "he was part of the problem too." Furthermore, Copley explained he was angry at his ex-wife and knew she would take him to court again for child support. So at that moment, he decided he had to kill her to get rid of the "constant nuisance".

His roommate, Noel Hernandez, testified that the child support verdict imposed severe financial strain, ultimately causing the denial of a property loan he had been positioned to secure before the custody ruling.

A grand jury indicted the defendant on 13 counts, including two counts of murder with a deadly weapon, eight counts of discharging a firearm within a structure or vehicle, and single counts of home invasion, burglary, and discharging a firearm into an occupied structure or vehicle. He is currently held without bail. Disclaimer: Inquisitr could not independently confirm the facts of this incident and is reporting based on the information available.

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