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Nov. 03, 2009
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HALLOWEEN SLAYING: Seven lose their father

Children present as man dies

By LAWRENCE MOWER
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL

Mourners gather Monday around the site where 40-year-old Arbuary Daniel Fuller was gunned down on Halloween night. Fuller, the father of seven children, had just returned home from taking the youngsters trick-or-treating. No suspect information has been released in the slaying, which happened at 1950 Simmons St., near Vegas and Rancho drives.
Photo by Jeff Scheid

Since Saturday night, 45-year-old Pamela Earls has been helping care for her slain son-in-law's seven children.

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"Does my Daddy have a phone where he's at?"

"Yes, he has a phone," she tells them.

"How come we can't call him?"

"He can call you, but you can't call him."

"Why?"

"He just can't. He's always looking over you."

"It's like a dream," Earls said Monday. "I'm speechless. I don't know what to say."

Her son-in-law, 40-year-old Arbuary Daniel Fuller, was gunned down on Halloween night, moments after taking his children inside his apartment after trick-or-treating.

Las Vegas police are looking for the suspects in the 8:41 p.m. shooting at the Shepherd Hills Townhomes, 1950 Simmons St., near Vegas and Rancho drives. They have not yet released suspect descriptions.

Earls, who also lives in the complex, said she heard five or six shots that night and saw two suspects running away and jumping into a white Dodge Intrepid. One suspect was shouting, "I got him cuz, I got him," she said.

She heard her grandchildren's cries and ran over to Fuller's apartment.

Her son-in-law was on the ground, surrounded by his children. They were screaming, "Daddy get up! Daddy get up!"

Earls' husband, 55-year-old Lewis Torrence, plucked his grandchildren off their father's body.

Pamela Earls, 45, looked into the dying man's eyes.

"Oh Momma, I can't breathe. I can't breathe," he told her.

A Clark County coroner's office official called the family on Monday. Fuller had five gunshot wounds, she said.

Fuller's children ranged in age from 4 months to 16 years. On Saturday night, he had taken them trick-or-treating, carrying his youngest door-to-door.

"He was just that kind of a guy," Torrence said. "It's just etched into my mind."

Fuller had taken them home briefly because he forgot a diaper bag. He was going to show Earls and Torrence the children's costumes.

Earls said Fuller had been with his 29-year-old wife for 11 years. The two were married last year. Fuller was a stay-at-home father who cared for the house and the children.

"My daughter didn't have to do anything but work," Earls said. "You don't find many young men like that anymore."

On Monday evening, flowers and letters were taped to an awning near the site where Fuller was gunned down.

"You were a super hero & a super dad," one letter read.

Fuller had moved to Las Vegas in 2002, in part to escape a sometimes troubled past in California, Earls said.

But she didn't know of any enemies her son-in-law had.

"They took him away from seven kids," Earls said. "They took him away from my grandchildren."

Contact reporter Lawrence Mower at lmower@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0440.

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Please enter your name Name: Please enter your email Email: Please enter a comment COMMENTS : (word count limit is 300) You have reached the maximum number of words allowed Current Word Count: Note: Comments made by reporters and editors of the Las Vegas Review-Journal are presented with a yellow background. Concerned wrote on November 05, 2009 10:35 AM: People are so opionated about things they do not know the facts on!!! These comments outrage me. He was a loving father and his children were his life! There are 7 children that are now with out a father. The mother of these children works and works hard! How is it that people are automatically assuming that they are on Welfare?!!! Don't comment on things you don't know about! You should be ashamed of yourself. Pray for the family don't abuse them. D/C FLYNN wrote on November 03, 2009 07:31 PM: I'm Sheriff Flynn..I'm a fat smelly drunken pig. If I was sober...I would do something about this....but right now...I'm trying to find my PP under my fat belly...oops, just spilled my irish whiskey. LCDR Mandingo, NAM vet wrote on November 03, 2009 06:30 PM: Baby daddy, you didn't mention WASP-only welfare programs (subsidies). They would be oil & gas, ranching, farming, mineral extractors, dairy, water distribution, health care insurance carriers, etc. No Black owners! Ooopsy! Clinton stripped Black folks from the welfare rolls, however, he knowingly left criminal & illegal Mexicans and FLDS-LDS members on this cash-cow. BabyDaddy wrote on November 03, 2009 05:35 PM: Ya know, reading these posts, I hear the frustration of people who are tired of having to support other people. I wish everyone would understand that we are the people, we are the government and government programs cost we the people... I gets it. Since welfare was started back in the 30's, it has been used, abused and become the reason for so much problems. Then we have politicians who continue to enable government programs to keep people dependant on the taxpayer and honestly, the taxpayer is fed up. We as Americans should be able to take care of ourself, as individuals first....meaning, I or you don't look at anyone else to take care of us. We've become lazy, ignorant, up to the point of being a waste of human life to just want and want and have a gimme, gimme, irresponsible attitude that just because i'm me... it ain't nobodies business... well, that sells records but doesn't jive in the real world... I'm so sorry for those seven little babies who now will have no daddy. I cry for them and their loss. nuff said. msk2u555 wrote on November 03, 2009 05:10 PM: As I said before this could be about you and people could be saying slanderous INACCURATE things about your murder. I knew Daniel personally and I dont want to tell the story in detail because I noticed the article didnt tell the whole story and maybe that was for police investigative reasons but this was a senseless murder and it easily could have been anyone even you. I can honestly say Daniel did not commit any crime the crime was done to him and his family. He did not deserve this and he does not deserve to have these slanderous comments against him. RIP Daniel. Lisa Jones wrote on November 03, 2009 04:07 PM: This just makes no since. all this violence taking good fathers away from there kids. It needs to stop. Daniel you will be dearly missed gary wrote on November 03, 2009 03:46 PM: Probably a drug related hit - he stole their "stuff". Move farther east - like maybe the far east. Congratulations to our taxpayers - seven kids that we will continue to take care of. tommy wrote on November 03, 2009 01:45 PM: The comments wow. If this happened to you you would not want your children seeing these comments. Anyway this sort of thing happens all over Vegas even in your sudity neighborhoods. The reason is police are to busy with unwarranted traffic stops than the real crimes going on in vegas. I can guarantee you Metro had someone pulled over for expired tags or something just blocks away when it happened. Corner wrote on November 03, 2009 12:14 PM: Let's see what the BAO LVPD has been doing. Shooting a blowhard at traffic stops Want to start monitoring strippers Crack down on prostitution Where's the crime prevention, where's the cop cars patrolling high crime areas? Where are the beat cops walking a beat? Next sheriff election we can't keep electing the same status quo pukes how come up from the ranks. We need to elect someone from the outside who's going to clean the ranks and set the priorities of the tax payingcommunity, not the priorities of the Sheriff and the department. fowl mood wrote on November 03, 2009 11:50 AM: 1950 Simmons St., near Vegas and Rancho Yea, do I really need to say anything else? Read All Comments