Las Vegas police charged Brandon McCoy, Raymond Duncan, and Tywann Hoyer-Pitts with murder in the shooting of Miguel Chavarria Garcia.

Charged with murder, and a stack of 66 felonies and 28 gross misdemeanors, are both what the paper prints. Shot in the head, and struck in the face, are not the same place. Oct. 10, and a Halloween party that morning, are both on the page. An acknowledgment in an arrest report is not a plea. The charges are accusations.

The Las Vegas Review-Journal, by Glenn Puit, printed November 5, 2026, at 11:15 a.m. with no time zone. It reported three men have been charged with murder in what it called an ambush-style shooting that police say targeted witnesses to an armed robbery in southwest Las Vegas. It reported Brandon Jaymes Thomas McCoy, 18, Raymond Duncan, 19, and Tywann Robert Hoyer-Pitts, 18, are each facing 66 felonies and 28 gross misdemeanors in the Oct. 10 shooting of a man identified in a Metropolitan Police Department arrest report as Miguel Chavarria Garcia, 18. Charged with murder, in the lede, and 66 felonies and 28 gross misdemeanors, in the next sentence, are not the same count. The page does not print the titles of the other felonies or of the gross misdemeanors. It reported McCoy and Hoyer-Pitts made brief appearances in Las Vegas Justice Court early Thursday, that Duncan was scheduled to appear for an initial hearing Thursday afternoon, and that all three are currently being held without bail. Thursday, on a Nov. 5 story, is Nov. 5. Early Thursday, and Thursday afternoon, are not the same sitting. It reported McCoy's attorney, Dayvid Figler, declined to immediately comment, that an attorney representing Hoyer-Pitts could not immediately be reached, and that court records do not list an attorney for Duncan. It reported a preliminary hearing for Hoyer-Pitts and McCoy has been scheduled for Nov. 19. The page does not print a year on Nov. 19. It does not print a preliminary date for Duncan. Held without bail is the custody line. It is not a finding that any of the three fired.

The shooting account uses two places on the body and one clock. The paper reported Chavarria Garcia was shot in the head while riding in an Acura at 2:11 a.m. at the intersection of West Rochelle Avenue and South Durango Drive, and that he died at a hospital days later. It then reported that one of the bullets struck him in the face as he sat in the back of the car. Shot in the head, and struck in the face, are not the same place. Riding in an Acura, and sat in the back of the car, are not the same posture. Days later is not a date. The hospital is not named. It reported that, in the arrest report, Chavarria Garcia and his friends went to a Halloween party that morning, then went to an In-N-Out Burger at 6530 S. Rainbow Blvd. when they noticed two armed men robbing a man of his gold chain. Oct. 10, the date the paper prints for the shooting, and Halloween, the word it prints for the party, are not the same day. That morning, and 2:11 a.m., are both on the page. The friends are not named. The man whose chain was taken is not named. It reported one of the men in the group told police that when the assailants left, the group briefly followed their vehicle, and that as they approached a nearby traffic light a 2018 Nissan Kicks pulled up alongside and gunmen opened fire on the Acura. Briefly followed, and an ambush-style shooting, are not the same description of the encounter. It reported crime scene analysts later recovered 28 cartridge cases. Twenty-eight cartridge cases, and one bullet that struck him in the face, are not the same count.

How the three were named is the arrest report, as the paper prints it, and it is not a plea. The paper reported police used video surveillance, cellphone data, and a witness account to identify suspects. It reported that according to the arrest report, Hoyer-Pitts acknowledged being at the In-N-Out and "that he was being followed by an unknown vehicle and that he fired upon that vehicle with a rifle." An acknowledgment in an arrest report, and a plea in Las Vegas Justice Court, are not the same act. The paper does not print a plea from McCoy, Duncan, or Hoyer-Pitts. The appearances it describes are brief, and Duncan's initial hearing, at 11:15 a.m., was still scheduled for the afternoon. Southwest Las Vegas, in the lede, and West Rochelle Avenue and South Durango Drive, at the intersection, are both on the page. The intersection line does not print a southwest tag. A charge is not a conviction. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.