John Delong shoots girlfriends mother who died and himself in the face

[Sister Iroz]

The elderly woman shot to death Thursday night before the gunman turned the weapon on himself has been identified as 84-year-old Sophie Jozwiak of Las Vegas, the Clark County Coroner’s Office said today.

The cause and manner of death will be determined after an autopsy, a spokeswoman in the coroner’s office said.

The man who shot the woman and then shot himself in the face is in critical condition, but expected to live, Metro Police said. He was identified today as 58-year-old John Delong.

Delong has been booked into the Clark County Detention Center on a homicide charge while he remains under treatment at Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center, said Metro Police spokesman Officer Bill Cassell.

Police received a call from an apartment complex at 1401 E. Reno Ave., north of Hacienda Avenue and east of Maryland Parkway, shortly before 6 p.m. Thursday.

When officers arrived they found an elderly woman dead on the floor of an apartment, police said.

A man became angry with his girlfriend and her mother inside the apartment, police said. A preliminary investigation revealed the three people argued inside the apartment when the man picked up a weapon, shot the girlfriend's mother, then himself, police said.

Homicide detectives said the man shot himself in the face, but was alive when police arrived and was taken to Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center's Trauma Center, where he underwent emergency surgery.

The man's girlfriend escaped from the apartment after the shooting and called police.

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I'm glad he's expected to live so he can either or both get the shit beat out of him in prison and/or he can rot in there and they can throw away the key.

[DogMom]

I'm glad he's expected to live so he can either or both get the shit beat out of him in prison and/or he can rot in there and they can throw away the key.

He also has to live with what's left of his face.

[Dakota Valkyrie]

Long-simmering tensions between a man and his girlfriend's mother turned deadly Thursday when the man shot and killed the woman, then tried to kill himself with two shots to the head.

John Vincent DeLong, 58, had been angry and frustrated with the behavior of 84-year-old Sophie Jozwiak, who had dementia and had been living with the couple for about seven months.

For months DeLong had threatened to shoot Jozwiak and her daughter, Theresa Jozwiak told police.

On Thursday he made good on one of those threats, police said.

Hours before the fatal confrontation, DeLong and Theresa Jozwiak headed to the nearby Pug's Pub to celebrate her birthday. After drinking about seven beers over several hours, DeLong and his girlfriend went home, the report said.

About an hour later, DeLong and Sophie Jozwiak started arguing. DeLong told his girlfriend he was "losing it," and said Sophie Jozwiak needed to leave, Theresa Jozwiak told police.

Sophie Jozwiak was moving out at the end of the month, her daughter said.

As the argument continued, DeLong pulled a .22-caliber revolver from under the sleeper sofa he used in the living room and leveled it at Sophie Jozwiak.

Her daughter told him to drop the gun and began hitting him. He punched her in the face and shot Sophie Jozwiak in the chest as her daughter watched, the report said.

DeLong then sat on the bed, put the gun in his mouth and fired. Still conscious, he put the gun under his chin and fired again, this time successfully incapacitating himself.

He was taken to Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center. His condition was unavailable Friday, but police had said he was expected to live.

Detectives booked DeLong in absentia at the Clark County Detention Center on one count of murder with a deadly weapon.

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