By Akiya Dillon
Las Vegas Review-Journal
BOULDER CITY, Nev. — A woman who was attacked in her yard in Boulder City said she would have died if not for the intervention of an off-duty Las Vegas police officer, according to police.
In a news briefing on Tuesday, Metropolitan Police Department Assistant Sheriff Jamie Prosser said that around 9:15 a.m. on Friday , Metro officer Cesar Ibarra , 48, was at home during his day off when he and his wife heard a “commotion” from his neighbor’s backyard.
Ibarra looked outside, and he saw a man who was later identified as Jeremiah Boshard , 44, body-slamming a woman. When he got on top of the woman, Prosser said, Boshard struck her in the face multiple times. Boshard had also tried to pull down a clothesline, according to Prosser.
Ibarra told his wife to call 911 before intervening, according to police. Then he separated Boshard from the woman and directed the woman — who had a swollen face, bruised lips, and strangulation marks around her neck — to sit in front of his house with his wife, Prosser said.
Boshard followed Ibarra, who was trying to go back into his house, police said. Boshard managed to wrap his arms around the officer’s neck before slamming Ibarra’s head into a vehicle in the driveway. Ibarra’s wife saw the situation unfolding and grabbed a gun.
Ibarra, eventually getting away from the man, also drew a weapon, Prosser said.
“He identified himself as a police officer and provided several verbal commands to get on the ground and back away,” Prosser said. “Despite those commands, Boshard moved forward toward the victim, causing officer Ibarra and his wife to discharge their weapons, striking Boshard.”
Prosser showed a video recording of the shooting, which was taken from another neighbor’s cellphone, at the briefing. The video showed Boshard standing over the woman with his hands on his hips while Ibarra and his wife yelled the commands.
Boshard appeared to lean slightly toward the woman moments before they fired shots, the video showed.
When the Boulder City Police Department responded to the scene, Boshard was pronounced dead in Ibarra’s front yard. The department later requested help from Metro.
Because Ibarra identified himself and “took action” as a police officer, Prosser said Metro would investigate the event as an officer-involved shooting.
Prosser added that if Boshard survived, he would have faced one count of attempted murder and one count of battery on a protected person. When asked how the woman was recovering after Boshard attacked her, Prosser said that she had been released from the hospital.
“I will tell you that by her own statement and the witness on the scene, she truly believed Boshard was going to kill her if someone did not intervene that day,” Prosser said.
Prosser said Boshard and the woman were acquaintances but did not specify the nature of their relationship.
On Friday, Metro Capt. Kurt McKenzie told reporters that the confrontation appeared domestic in the initial stages of the investigation, but detectives were unsure.
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