In the early hours of a Wednesday in February 2008, the quiet of a southwest Las Vegas neighborhood was shattered by violence. Inside his home on Forbes Field Court, near Fort Apache and Russell roads, 27-year-old Robert Turner, an African-American male, was confronted by two men with robbery on their minds. An altercation ensued, and in a moment of brutal finality, Robert was shot in the head.
The two assailants, their identities shrouded in the pre-dawn darkness, fled the scene on
foot, taking with them several items from the home and leaving a life extinguished in their wake. Las Vegas metropolitan police descended on the quiet residential street, beginning an investigation into the home invasion-robbery that had turned deadly. The Clark County coroner's office would later officially identify the victim as Robert Turner.
In the days that followed, the investigation continued, but details about the two male suspects remained scarce. No descriptions were publicly released, and no arrests were immediately announced. The trail of the two men who had so violently entered Robert Turner's home and ended his life seemed to have gone cold, leaving a grieving family and a community searching for answers that remained just out of reach. The case, like so many others, faded from the headlines, leaving the question of who was responsible for the death of Robert Turner unanswered.
