LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – A 20-year-old man faces murder charges following the death of a 50-year-old man who was found shot and killed inside a vehicle in what appeared to be a road rage incident back in 2023, according to Las Vegas Metro police detectives.
Through the investigation, police identified Jaxsyn Bunker, 20, as the suspect in the case. Bunker was already in custody at the Clark County Detention Center for unrelated charges. On Dec. 21, 2024, police rebooked Bunker on a charge of open murder, according to a police report.
The incident took place on Oct. 29, 2023, at around 4 p.m., when officers with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department responded to a shooting near Escondido Street and Cactus Avenue.
When officers arrived they found a man later identified by the Clark County Coroner’s Office as Yilmaz Ogur, 50, unresponsive in the driver’s seat of a blue Kia with a gunshot wound to the head. Ogur was later taken to the hospital where doctors told police his injuries were “not survivable,” according to the report.
A 911 caller reported hearing eight to nine gunshots in the area, the report stated.
A witness later told police he heard a “loud bang” from outside as he was sitting in his living room and then two additional loud bangs which caused him to look outside. He told police the loud bangs were gunshots as a white sedan drove north on Escondido Street and a blue SUV was drove behind it. The witness told police he then saw a man in his 20s emerge from the driver’s side window of the white sedan, pointed a black pistol at the blue SUV and fired a round eight additional shots, according to the report.
The blue SUV then stopped driving in the middle of the street. A witness nearby then told police he could see the blue SUV’s driver’s side window partially rolled down and bullet holes in the windshield and the driver, later identified as Ogur, had a gunshot to the forehead. The witness called 911 and could hear Ogur gargling as if he had difficulty breathing, according to the report.
Evidence at the scene of the incident consisted of nine cartridge cases, bullet fragments, apparent bullet holes in the hood and windshield of the vehicle, and apparent blood inside the driver’s seat of the vehicle, according to the report.
One day after the shooting, homicide detectives visited Ogur’s place of work in Henderson and learned that he had worked an overtime shift the day of the crash. Detectives also plotted out his travel path and determined he had been shot approximately 23 minutes after clocking out of work.
Upon reviewing video footage from the area, detectives discovered that the shooting appeared to be the result of road rage. They said Ogur was seen following the white sedan closely along St. Rose Parkway. The white sedan was seen “brake checking” Ogur and “driving slower than reasonable in front of him,” according to the report.
After the shooting, detectives captured the suspect vehicle leaving the area but lost it near Eastern Avenue and Silverado Ranch, according to the report.
A forensic lab report later stated that there were two groupings of cartridge casings, indicating two firearms were fired during the incident, according to the police report.
On Dec. 16, Las Vegas Metro police received a phone call from a Henderson Police homicide lieutenant who said there was a woman who arrived at their headquarters to report that a person had shot and killed someone a year ago near Cactus Avenue and Saint Rose Parkway. When Las Vegas Metro police arrived to interview the woman she told them Bunker was in custody in Nevada on an unrelated firearms charge where he was caught selling devices that modify semi-automatic handguns online and was set to be released on Dec. 27, according to the report.
The woman went on to tell police that someone she had spoken suspected Bunker was involved shooting and that Bunker himself had shown off a news article about the shooting and confessed he and another individual were the “shooter,” according to the police report.
The woman then told police Bunker went on to disclose details about the day of the shooting and that he had since sold the gun used in the shooting. The woman also told police Bunker spoke about the incident as if “it was a trophy he had collected” and that she was disgusted by it, according to the report.
Police went on to interview Bunker’s girlfriend as well as Bunker himself regarding the ownership of the vehicle in the shooting. Police later determined the white sedan was Bunker’s girlfriend’s vehicle and that he would occasionally use it to drive her to work and then deliver food as his job, according to the report.
When police interviewed Bunker, he denied that he knew anything about the shooting or murder and told police he was not involved and did not have a driver’s license so he could not drive, according to the report.
When officers showed Bunker photos of the white sedan with a slightly visible profile of a driver he denied it was him and claimed that if it was his girlfriend’s car someone else was driving it, the report stated.
Bunker was served a search warrant by police where DNA was taken, and cell phones and computers were seized. Police stated that they were able to connect text messages to and from Bunker and his girlfriend from the day of the shooting and “seemed to clearly contradict his claim that he was not driving the car on the day of the murder,” and that he had no information on it, according to the report.
Based on the police investigation, Bunker was then rebooked into the Clark County Detention Center where he faces an open murder charge in the deadly shooting, according to the police report.
