LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – Two years after a Las Vegas woman was shot and killed, family and friends gathered in North Las Vegas to celebrate her life.

“It has been really, really hard,” Regina Lacerda said. “To live without her.”

Lacerda spoke with 8 News Now about her daughter, Tabatha Tozzi.

“She’s the light of my life,” Lacerda said. “Because I’m never going to say that she was.”

The 26-year-old was shot in the head in the west valley on April 22, 2023. She died two days later.

“She has too much light on her, and people, everyone who is here,” Lacerda said. “And I know there are people who did not know Tabatha, and they are fighting with me.”

Tozzi’s accused killer, her then-boyfriend Oswaldo “Nate” Perez-Sanchez, now 27 years old, was on the run until last week.

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Undersheriff Andrew Walsh spoke with 8 News Now on the moment authorities arrested him in Mexico.

“If I could describe going to the highest high and the lowest low in about a half a second,” Undersheriff Walsh said. “That’s how it felt.”

Perez-Sanchez is also accused of murdering a second woman, identified as Vivian Karely, in Mexico.

“When I found out that a life had, someone died for me to have that happening,” Lacerda said of Perez-Sanchez’s arrest. “That kills me.”

Lacerda said no matter what happens and how much time passes, she will always fight for what her daughter would have wanted.

“She was very strong and she had a voice,” Lacerda concluded. “And I believe that I have to be her voice.”

Due to the murder charge Perez-Sanchez faces in Mexico, his extradition process becomes more complicated.

According to federal documents, it could take years for him to come back to the United States.

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