Las Vegas lawyer, 77, who shot dead son's ex-wife and her prominent attorney ... trends now
The Las Vegas attorney and his wife who were killed in a shooting at his offices were gunned down by a fellow lawyer diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Dennis Prince, 57, and Ashley Prince, 30, were fatally shot during a deposition involving Ashley's ex-husband, Dylan Houston, on Monday morning. Prince was representing his wife in the case.
Dylan was represented by his father, 77-year-old Joseph Houston II, who opened fire during the proceedings before turning the gun on himself.
Now, Robert Eglet, a Las Vegas trial lawyer and close friend of Prince for several decades, has revealed Houston had confided that he was dying of cancer just days earlier in an interview with Fox News Digital.
'Joe told me this not long before the shooting, that he was dying of terminal cancer. Makes me wonder if he felt like he had nothing to lose?' Eglet said.
'I really don't know though, I can't make any sense of this all.'
Dennis Prince, 57, and wife Ashley Prince, 30, were killed in a shooting at his law firm on Monday morning by another attorney, 77-year-old Joseph Houston II
According to a close friend of Prince, Houston had confided that he was dying from terminal cancer just days before the shooting
According to Clark County Sheriff Kevin McMahill, gunshots broke out at around 10 a.m. inside the Prince Law Group's Summerlin office.
'You know, it's just so tragic, I can't even put it into words,' Eglet said.
Court documents filed hours later detailed the moments preceding the senseless violence.
Five minutes after the deposition began, Houston 'stood up, had a very glazed and rattled look in his eyes, pulled out a handgun and shot Prince four times,' the documents state.
As the shots rang out, Houston appeared to take notice of a pregnant lawyer who was in the room - and spare her life.
The woman, identified as Shannon Wilson, 'immediately ducked and hid under the conference room table.'
Michele LoBello, another one of Ashley Prince's attorneys, alleged that Wilson had pleaded with the gunman not to hurt her baby.
'She explained to me that Mr. Houston allowed her to leave the conference room and following her quick departure and taking cover elsewhere in the office, she heard additional shots fired,' LoBello stated.
Prince was representing his wife in an ongoing custody case involving her ex-husband, Houston's son Dylan
Gunshots broke out during a deposition Monday morning, with Houston pulling out a handgun and shooting Prince in the chest four times
Before turning the gun on himself, Prince appeared to spare the life of a pregnant lawyer who pleaded with him not to hurt her baby
Dylan Houston himself was not present at the deposition, but the documents note that a private investigator had recorded 'concerning information regarding Plaintiff’s drinking and dangerous behavior' a month earlier.
The investigator allegedly observed Dylan driving home from a bar on March 29 while swerving around the road.
Dylan, who is a partner at Resnick & Louis in Las Vegas, filed for divorce from Ashley in October 2021 following four years of marriage.
According to social media posts, the pair were together for several years before they wed, with Ashley announcing that she and Dylan were moving
