LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Darin Algee, 31, was driving home on a Las Vegas freeway with his wife and 5-year-old son in the car when he was fatally shot, according to family.
Algee’s widow, Lasha Bowie, declined to provide further details surrounding the shooting citing concerns about interfering with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department’s investigation and instead wanted to focus on their family’s loss.
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Darin Algee, 31, was driving home on a Las Vegas freeway with his wife and five-year-old son in the car when he was fatally shot, according to family. (Mozella Gayfield) -
Darin Algee, 31, was driving home on a Las Vegas freeway with his wife and five-year-old son in the car when he was fatally shot, according to family. (Mozella Gayfield) -
Darin Algee, 31, was driving home on a Las Vegas freeway with his wife and five-year-old son in the car when he was fatally shot, according to family. (Mozella Gayfield) -
Darin Algee, 31, was driving home on a Las Vegas freeway with his wife and five-year-old son in the car when he was fatally shot, according to family. (Mozella Gayfield) -
Darin Algee, 31, was driving home on a Las Vegas freeway with his wife and five-year-old son in the car when he was fatally shot, according to family. (Mozella Gayfield) -
Darin Algee, 31, was driving home on a Las Vegas freeway with his wife and five-year-old son in the car when he was fatally shot, according to family. (Mozella Gayfield)
“He was a great man, he was a loving father,” Bowie said. “He supported me and his kids for our whole 14 years of being together and married.”
Bowie said she is worried about how her family will get back on their feet following the shooting and recent move to Las Vegas. Algee’s five children and wife moved to Las Vegas from Dallas, Texas over a month ago and said they don’t know how they will afford necessities.
“We’re not doing good at all,” Bowie said. “We just moved out here, we don’t have much. It’d be to help us start our life.”
The family car, a gray SUV, was identified by police as the victim’s vehicle involved in the Thursday shooting which closed the I-15 southbound lanes for hours. Bowie said she is relying on her family in Las Vegas to get around as her car is now totaled.
“I don’t have a car anymore,” she said.
Algee’s teenage son, Joe Hairston Jr., held his mother as she struggled to speak about their family’s loss and spoke to the role he has taken on.
“It’s going to be really hard to get through without him, but I’m going to stay strong for him and just continue what he wanted to do,” Hairston said. “Him being gone, I just can’t really fathom it yet.”
Bowie asked for the community’s help in supporting them following their recent move to Las Vegas, and loss of the family car.
Algee’s aunt, Mozella Gayfield, told 8 News Now the Las Vegas side of the family is working to support the five children now left without a father, and said she hopes the community overall pitches in to help.
Police have not released details on the alleged shooter, motive, and any other vehicles involved.
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