A felon sought in a shooting and fiery crash that killed three people on Las Vegas' main boulevard was taken into custody Thursday in Los Angeles, police said. 
 
 This photo provided by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department shows Ammar Harris in a booking photo from a 2012 arrest in Las Vegas. Police have identified Harris as a suspect in a shooting that... (Associated Press) 
 
 Ammar Harris was arrested by a team of police and federal agents in North Hollywood, Las Vegas police Capt. Chris Jones said. 
 
 The 26-year-old Harris is a self-described pimp who was the subject of a multi-state manhunt following the Feb. 21 gunfire and chain-reaction crash, 
 
 Police say he fired at least five shots from a sports utility vehicle into a Maserati sports car, killing a self-promoted rapper who he argued with earlier in the valet area of a Las Vegas Strip resort. 
 
 The Maserati slammed into a taxi, killing the driver and a businesswoman. 
 
 Earlier in the day, police said they had found and talked with all three women who were in the SUV with Harris. 
 
 Late Wednesday, police found SUV passenger Tineesha Lashun Howard in another state, and Jones said for the first time that police previously found and interviewed two other women who were with Howard in Harris' black Range Rover during the shooting. 
 
 Jones wouldn't release the names of the other passengers in Harris' SUV, but said none of the three passengers had been charged with a crime. Police are concerned about their safety, the police captain said. 
 
 Howard, a 22-year-old from Miami with a history of prostitution arrests, also uses the names Yenesis Alfonzo or Yani. She was identified by police on Tuesday as a person of interest in the case who might have been in danger. 
 
 Las Vegas police also sought Thursday to stop the circulation of several photos the department issued Tuesday and Wednesday in the search for Harris. Police said they depict people other than Howard. 
 
 Harris was arrested last year in Las Vegas in a 2010 prostitution case using the name Ammar Asim Faruq Harris. He was charged with robbery, sexual assault, kidnapping and coercion with a weapon, and police sought charges of pandering by force and felon in possession of concealed weapon. Court records show that case was dismissed last June. 
 
 Harris was convicted in South Carolina in 2004 of felony possession with intent to sell a stolen pistol and convicted that same year in Atlanta of a misdemeanor marijuana possession charge. ||||| DA might seek death penalty for Strip-shooting suspect arrested in LA 
 
 GENE BLEVINS / Los Angeles Daily News 
 
 Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson said the suspect in the Strip shooting that left three dead demonstrated “reckless disregard for human life,” and would not rule out seeking the death penalty after the man’s arrest Thursday in Los Angeles. 
 
 After a weeklong, nationwide manhunt, Ammar Harris, 26, was found at an apartment complex in Studio City, where Los Angeles Police Department officers and FBI agents converged around noon. Harris surrendered peacefully, Metro Police Lt. Ray Steiber said. 
 
 Harris faces three counts of murder and one count of attempted murder, plus counts of discharging a firearm into a vehicle and discharging a firearm out of a vehicle, according to a criminal complaint filed last week by Clark County prosecutors. The murder charges ultimately may be changed to capital murder. 
 
 At the news conference announcing the arrest Thursday, Wolfson said his office would follow its usual procedure in determining whether Harris would face the death penalty. The decision to file capital murder charges is determined by a committee of prosecutors in the D.A.'s office. 
 
 But, Wolfson said, "I can tell you that Mr. Harris’ behavior is like none other that I've seen, and I've been in law enforcement for 32 years." 
 
 "I can’t imagine anything much more serious than firing a weapon from a moving vehicle into another moving vehicle on a corner such as Las Vegas Boulevard and Flamingo. That is reckless disregard for human life, and there are certain consequences when you engage in that kind of behavior," Wolfson said. 
 
 After his arrest, Harris was transported to the LAPD Metro Detention Center. "He's in the process of being booked. We'll see if he waives extradition," Steiber said during a 4 p.m. media conference. 
 
 Metro detectives were on their way to Los Angeles to interview Harris, Steiber added. 
 
 Harris, 26, had been identified by Metro as the person who fired gunshots from a Range Rover into a Maserati sports car in the early-morning hours of Feb. 21 as the vehicles made their way up the Las Vegas Strip. 
 
 Kenneth Cherry Jr., the driver of the Maserati, and a passenger were hit in the shooting. Cherry’s wounds caused him to lose control of the car, which ran a red light at Flamingo Road and crashed into a taxi. 
 
 The impact triggered an explosion in the cab. Three people were killed: Cherry; the cab driver, Michael Boldon, 62, of Las Vegas; and cab passenger Sandra Sutton-Wasmund, 48, a businesswoman from Maple Valley, Wash. The criminal complaint filed against Harris identified the passenger who survived as Freddy Walters. 
 
 Cherry’s family expressed elation after learning of Harris’ arrest. But the timing of the news on the day of Cherry’s funeral in Oakland made the news bittersweet, the family said in a statement through their attorney, Bob Beckett. Cherry’s father, Kenneth Cherry Sr., expressed hope that the district attorney would seek the death penalty for Harris. 
 
 “It is consoling to know that the state of Nevada has the death penalty,” Cherry Sr. said in the statement. 
 
 An argument between Cherry and Harris reportedly occurred before both men left Aria early in the morning of Feb. 21, but detectives do not believe they knew each other previously, Steiber said. 
 
 Harris had eluded authorities since the shooting. The Range Rover was found Saturday in the parking lot of an apartment complex where Harris lived, not far from the shooting scene. 
 
 Harris was said to have been from South Carolina and spent time in Las Vegas, Atlanta and Miami. Authorities said earlier this week that their search for him stretched from Maine to California. 
 
 “(Harris) left Las Vegas shortly after this event occurred … He did leave Las Vegas pretty rapidly,” Steiber said. 
 
 Steiber did not give details about how police located and closed in on Harris. 
 
 The FBI told the Los Angeles Daily News that Harris was arrested around noon at a fourth floor apartment on Arch Drive, where he was staying with a friend. Harris’ friend lived in the Archview Apartments, the newspaper reported. 
 
 FBI special agent Scott Garriola told the Los Angeles paper that the friend was detained for questioning but was not thought to be involved in the incident. 
 
 Earlier Thursday, Metro Capt. Chris Jones reported three witnesses who had been with Harris the morning of the shooting had been located and interviewed. One, Yenesis Alfonso, also known as Tineesha Lishun Howard, was found outside Nevada and interviewed Wednesday evening after being named as a person of interest in the case. 
 
 Alfonso and the other two witnesses were cooperative and were not considered suspects, Jones said. 
 
 Harris was arrested in 2010 in Las Vegas on charges of pandering, kidnapping, sexual assault and coercion. He is also known by the name Ammar Asim Faruq Harris, and uses the nickname Jai’duh. 
 
 Alfonso’s arrest history includes soliciting prostitution, trespassing, possession of a stolen vehicle and grand larceny, trick roll, according to Metro Police. 
 
 On a networking website for models and photographers, someone who appears to be Harris posted a profile under the name Jai’duh. 
 
 The profile says Jai’duh is a fashion photographer looking for models, and includes samples of his work. The profile, created June 15, 2008, states: “Just relocated to Las Vegas from Atlanta. … So I’m fresh out here.” 
 
 Attempts to contact models who appeared to have worked with Harris were unsuccessful. 
 
 Harris had at least two twitter feeds, @NY and @jaiduh. The former was used more frequently and was deleted after the shooting, while the latter was seldom used and remains active but is a private account. 
 
 On social media, Harris flaunted a lavish lifestyle, posting videos of him counting $100 bills and partying in Miami and elsewhere. 
 
 A Lockerz.com account that appears to belong to Harris includes pictures of stacks of cash harnessed by rubber bands, expensive luxury cars and a Carbon 15 .223 caliber pistol. 
 
 In one photo that looks to be a screen capture of an instant message conversation, someone tells Harris: “A ho with no instructions, will fail in self-destruction.” 
 
 Harris also posted a picture of a credit card for “AMG Lifestyle” with the caption “Filing taxes on em lol,” and identified himself as AMG Management on his Twitter account. 
 
 A business entity search in Florida found an AMG Lifestyle Inc. registered to Alfonso. 
 
 Harris is scheduled to appear Monday morning in an L.A. courtroom on a fugitive warrant, Los Angeles County District Attorney Sandi Gibbons told Los Angeles Daily News. Next for Harris will be extradition back to Nevada, Metro indicated, where a warrant charging him with three counts of murder was issued Friday. 
 
 News of his arrest was greeted warmly. 
 
 “The Desert Cab family is just absolutely elated,” said Sandy Shaver, general manager of Desert Cab, the company whose taxi was involved in the collision that resulted in the deaths of Boldon and Sandra Sutton-Wasmund. 
 
 “It was so irritating that he was still out there. We couldn’t be happier right now,” Shaver said. 
 
 Shaver said word of the arrest spread rapidly on two-way radios used by drivers in their cabs. 
 
 “Nothing in the 20 years I’ve worked here has put such a weight on the company more than the loss of Michael (Boldon) and his passenger,” Shaver said. “It’s a big relief to us that he has been caught.” ||||| What started the tension between a boastful pimp and an aspiring rapper at a posh Strip resort that culminated in three deaths on the iconic Strip last week remains unclear, but the multistate manhunt for the fugitive gunman ended Thursday with his arrest near Los Angeles, authorities said. 
 
 On the morning of Feb. 21, Ammar Harris and Kenneth Cherry Jr. only had a 15-minute window in which they crossed paths, a Las Vegas police report said. 
 
 During their brief encounter at Aria at CityCenter, Harris, 26, became so angry with Cherry, 27, that he took his rage to the streets as the two men pulled out of the resort's valet in their luxury vehicles. 
 
 Harris fired at least five rounds from the driver's seat of his Range Rover at Cherry's Maserati on Las Vegas Boulevard near Flamingo Road, the report said. 
 
 The shooting ignited a domino-effect crash in which a fatally wounded Cherry drove into a taxicab, causing a fireball explosion. 
 
 The chaos ended with three deaths and launched a search for Harris, who sped away with three women in the Range Rover. 
 
 Although the police report didn't say what Harris and Cherry argued about, law enforcement sources said the beef was over a working girl. 
 
 "It was all prostitution stuff," a source said. 
 
 Harris was arrested about noon Thursday in Studio City in Los Angeles. 
 
 During his arrest, he was at an apartment with a woman believed to be a prostitute, a source said. He was taken into custody peacefully at the Archview luxury apartment complex near the Hollywood Freeway and the Los Angeles River, at 4150 Arch Drive. 
 
 Harris was arrested by a team of FBI agents and police. 
 
 Clark County Sheriff Doug Gillespie said during an afternoon press conference that Harris' arrest was a "multi-agency approach" between his department's homicide unit, and the Criminal Apprehension Team fugitive task force, as well as Los Angeles police and the FBI. 
 
 Gillespie said three people died because of Harris' "senseless act." 
 
 Cherry was killed by a gunshot. Cabdriver Michael Boldon, 62, and his passenger, Sandra Sutton-Wasmund, 48, of Maple Valley, Wash., died in the explosion. 
 
 Freddy Walters, 26, the passenger in Cherry's Maserati, was grazed by a bullet and treated at University Medical Center. He cooperated with police. Three other people also were injured. 
 
 Gillespie said Thursday's arrest was about more than detaining Harris. It was about keeping Southern Nevadans and tourists safe. 
 
 "I hope anyone out there watching understands clearly, if you live in this city, if you work in this city or you visit this city and you act like this person, we will find you. We will prosecute you and we will send you to prison," Gillespie said while speaking of Harris. 
 
 NEW DETAILS OF INCIDENT 
 
 The police report said Harris arrived at the Aria about 1:30 a.m. with three women. They were escorted into the Haze nightclub. 
 
 Cherry and Walters arrived shortly before 4 a.m., and were in Cherry's Maserati leaving the valet only 15 minutes later. 
 
 Harris approached the driver's door of Cherry's Maserati, paused for a second or two, and then continued into the Aria lobby, the report said. 
 
 At 4:16 a.m., Harris drove out of the Aria valet and then east on Harmon Avenue toward Las Vegas Boulevard. 
 
 The report said Harris and Cherry next saw each other at a traffic light on eastbound Harmon near the Strip. 
 
 A taxicab's video caught Harris' Range Rover as it pulled in front of Cherry's Maserati when the vehicles prepared to turn north on Las Vegas Boulevard. 
 
 Harris then began unleashing his anger toward Cherry. 
 
 "The driver of the Ranger Rover (Harris) rolled his window down and began yelling at the driver of the Maserati (Cherry)," the report said without detailing the exchange. 
 
 The taxi camera recorded the sounds of two gunshots at 4:19 a.m. Shortly after, three more gunshots are heard on the video. 
 
 The single, fatal shot to Cherry struck his left shoulder, and perforated his chest, the report said. He died at UMC less than 30 minutes after the shooting. 
 
 Cherry, went by the rap persona "Kenny Clutch." He rapped on YouTube videos about a life of drugs, guns and pimping. 
 
 But Cherry's father told the Review-Journal his son was an innocent victim. 
 
 Kenneth Cherry Sr., 52, said Thursday through an attorney he was elated by Harris' arrest. He buried his son Thursday. 
 
 Cherry Sr. said last week his son was a good kid who was only playing a tough guy in his amateur videos. He said his son was not a bad guy. 
 
 "It's like somebody took my heart and snatched it out of my chest," said the tearful father. "This has touched home in a way I wouldn't wish on nobody." 
 
 Child custody documents in Clark County family court paint a different picture of Cherry Jr., showing a violent man who chased down the mother of one of his children and beat her so hard that she started to see "stars." 
 
 The allegations were made in September 2011 in an affidavit that stems from a child custody dispute. 
 
 FAMILY RELIEVED BY ARREST 
 
 Family members of other victims were relieved Harris was arrested, saying they planned to attend Harris' court hearings. 
 
 "I'm ecstatic," said Tehran Boldon, 50, on Thursday. He bid farewell to his brother Wednesday at a church in North Las Vegas, where Michael Boldon, the cab driver, was carried away in a silver casket. "The sooner they caught him the better. And I'm really happy that they got him alive. That was really important to me and my family. Now he's going to have to face the music, and it won't be rap, either." 
 
 From Maple Valley, Wash., Sue VanRuff, a good friend of Sutton-Wasmund, said the entire community is "heartbroken," but that at least now there might be some justice. 
 
 "I'm glad the police caught up with him," said VanRuff, executive director of the Greater Maple Valley-Black Diamond Chamber of Commerce, where Sutton-Wasmund worked as an independent contractor. "And we look forward to justice." 
 
 Sutton-Wasmund was in Las Vegas attending a trade show. 
 
 THE MANHUNT 
 
 A massive search ensued for the shooting suspect, a felon and proclaimed pimp. Billboards went up in Las Vegas as police sought the public's help in catching Harris, who bragged about his lifestyle openly on Twitter. 
 
 Investigators submitted an arrest warrant for Harris on three counts of murder last week. Harris, under the name Ammar Asim Faruq Harris, was arrested in Las Vegas for a 2010 prostitution case. He faced multiple charges, including robbery, sex assault, kidnapping and coercion with a weapon, in that case. It was dismissed in June 2012. 
 
 In 2004, Harris was convicted in South Carolina on a felony charge of possession with intent to sell a stolen pistol. 
 
 After the Strip shooting, the Range Rover was caught on Venetian surveillance video heading toward Koval Lane. 
 
 Police found the SUV on Saturday at The Meridian, the Las Vegas condominium complex where Harris lived. 
 
 Before the shooting, Harris openly boasted about his life as a pimp on social media websites, where he instructed his prostitutes and recruited new girls. 
 
 In a Twitter feed spanning several years, Harris flashed stacks of $100 bills and high-powered guns. 
 
 He flaunted expensive cars - a Bentley, an Aston Martin and a BMW - and reveled in luxury homes in two of the country's most glamorous cities. 
 
 He didn't just celebrate his birthday; he planned a boat party on the Atlantic Ocean, with a $1,000 bikini contest and a poster featuring beautiful women. 
 
 His Twitter account, deleted Tuesday after the Review-Journal reviewed a year's worth of tweets, paint a picture of an ambitious, controlling man who demeaned women and was undaunted by police, the courts or the dangers of his lifestyle. 
 
 PASSENGER NO LONGER SOUGHT 
 
 Harris' arrest came after Las Vegas police announced Wednesday night that a passenger in his car, 22-year-old Yenesis Alfonzo, also known as Tineesha Lashun Howard, was no longer being sought as a person of interest. 
 
 A source told the Review-Journal that Alfonzo was on a bus when she was stopped by authorities Wednesday somewhere in the southwestern United States. 
 
 She was headed home to Miami, the source said. 
 
 Police said they spoke to three female passengers in Harris' Range Rover and none were expected be prosecuted. 
 
 Alfonzo has an arrest record that includes soliciting prostitution, trick roll, grand larceny and possession of a stolen vehicle. 
 
 The Los Angeles Times reported at least one other woman inside Harris' Range Rover had a similar record. 
 
 Las Vegas investigators suspected Harris may have fled to California when they discovered his phone records showed he was communicating with people in the state, the Times also reported. 
 
 Las Vegas police said they were in touch with FBI and Los Angeles authorities throughout their search for Harris. Hundreds of tips were investigated by detectives, police said. 
 
 Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson said Harris, who is facing nearly a dozen charges including three counts of murder, won't be given any leniency. 
 
 He called Harris' actions "reckless," with no regard for human life. 
 
 "I can't imagine anything more serious than firing a weapon from a moving vehicle into another moving vehicle on a corner such as Las Vegas Boulevard and Flamingo," Wolfson said. "Thank God only three people lost their lives. ... It could have been worse." 
 
 The Associated Press contributed to this report. Contact reporter Antonio Planas at aplanas@reviewjournal. com or 702-383-4638. Contact reporter Tom Ragan at tragan@reviewjournal.com or 702-224-5512. Contact reporter Mike Blasky at mblasky@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0283.
– The multi-state manhunt after last week's shooting spree on the Vegas Strip is over. Police in Los Angeles today arrested 26-year-old Ammar Harris, reports the Las Vegas Sun. Harris is accused of firing at a vehicle driven by aspiring rapper Kenneth Cherry, which caused Cherry's car to slam into a taxi. Three people, including Cherry, were killed. Police named Harris as a suspect a few days ago, and he faces three counts of murder. Cops say three women were in Harris' Range Rover at the time of the shooting, but all have been located and none face charges, reports AP. Harris himself has a lengthy criminal history and has long boasted about his life as a pimp, literally, on Twitter, reports the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The paper pulled a year's worth of tweets before the account got yanked, complete with images of Harris flashing wads of cash, guns, and fancy cars. The tweets depict "an ambitious, controlling man who demeaned women and was undaunted by police, the courts or the dangers of his lifestyle," says the R-J story.