Jayden Collins, 16, male, was shot and killed on the night of August 5, 2025, outside a home on the 5600 block of North Bonita Vista Street in the northwest Las Vegas Valley after a large house party spilled into the street. Officers arrived around 10 p.m. to find him unresponsive with multiple gunshot wounds; he was pronounced dead at the scene, and the Clark County coroner later ruled the death a homicide.
The home sits near West Ann Road and North Durango Drive, and early accounts from police emphasized that a fight at the party escalated into gunfire.
In the hours surrounding the shooting, neighbors and friends flooded 911 with panicked calls—more than 30 minutes of audio later released by police captured witnesses pleading for help and describing gunshots, screaming, and a chaotic flight of partygoers. Dispatch logs placed the first calls around 10:05 p.m.; responding officers found Collins in front of the house with several wounds. The coroner's office identified him and confirmed he died from multiple gunshot injuries.
Detectives pursued a gang-related motive as they pieced together what happened that night. According to police, Collins had attended the gathering when tensions linked to rival crews flared; investigators reported finding a handgun in his waistband and said social media group chats among attendees referenced being “up on the scoreboard,” a phrase detectives described as gang vernacular for retaliatory violence. These details emerged as investigators interviewed partygoers, tracked Instagram accounts connected to the event, and sought warrants for messages discussing the killing.
Within weeks, police arrested a 17-year-old, Elijah Belt-Campbell, and booked him into the Clark County Detention Center on a charge of open murder; prosecutors moved to try him as an adult. Court records and police reports cited by local outlets say Belt-Campbell admitted to the shooting, allegedly tied to rival gang affiliations, and that he posted online messages after the killing that authorities interpreted as boasting. A preliminary hearing was scheduled for September 30, and at the time of the arrest, he was reported to be held without bail.
In the immediate aftermath, police initially told the public no arrest had been made and urged witnesses to come forward; that changed with the August 22 arrest. Even as the case moved into court, the portrait of the night remained stark: a summer party, an argument that spiraled into bursts of gunfire on a quiet block near Ann and Durango, and the sudden death of a North Las Vegas teenager whose name would anchor headlines in the weeks that followed.
