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# Vegas Mom Went Looking for Road Rage Suspect Before Killing, Police Say


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Feb 18, 2015 1:41 AM CUT

The Las Vegas woman who was shot dead by a gunman in what police are calling a road rage incident was killed after she and her son — who was armed with a gun of his own — went looking for the angry driver who had confronted her and her daughter a short time before, police said Tuesday.

Tammy Meyers, 44, was shot by someone in a gray or silver 4-door sedan outside her home shortly at around 11:22 p.m., and died two days later.

The suspect or suspects remain unidentified and at large, police said.

Earlier, Meyers had been teaching her 15-year-old daughter to drive in a parking lot….

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