Man shot dead at North Las Vegas casino is former state senator’s son
The man who was killed at a North Las Vegas casino early Thursday was the son of former North Las Vegas state senator and mayoral candidate Pat Spearman.
Na’Onche Osborne, 23, of North Las Vegas, died from multiple gunshot wounds, the Clark County coroner’s office said on Saturday.
North Las Vegas police said in a news release that the department received reports of a shooting at Aliante, near the 215 Beltway and North Aliante Parkway, around 4:30 a.m. Thursday.
On Friday, authorities identified the suspect as Aerion Warmsley, 19.
Warmsley is facing one count of open murder with a deadly weapon and one count of robbery with a deadly weapon, authorities said.
In addition to the shooting, police said, Warmsley is accused of carjacking at least three vehicles, causing multiple crashes.
Warmsley was taken into custody after a high-speed police chase that crisscrossed the valley, authorities said.
During the chase at least two people were injured. One was hospitalized in critical condition after the vehicle Warmsley was driving slammed into a bus stop near Tropicana Avenue and Boulder Highway, police said.
The vehicle was traveling at about 105 miles per hour at the time, police said.
Spearman did not immediately return a message left Saturday afternoon.
Ozzie Fumo, an attorney for the Spearman family, released a statement via text message that said in part that Osborne’s passing is “an unimaginable loss for the senator and their family, and they are heartbroken.”
“At this moment, the family kindly requests that their privacy be respected so that they can mourn in peace,” Fumo wrote in the text message. “They are deeply grateful for the outpouring of love, prayers and condolences from friends, colleagues and the community.”
Spearman served as a Democratic state senator for Nevada’s Senate District 1, which includes a portion of North Las Vegas, from 2013 to 2025.
Spearman ran to be the city’s mayor in 2022 but lost to North Las Vegas councilwoman Pamela Goynes-Brown. Then-Vice President Kamala Harris endorsed Spearman before the election.
A few hours after Osborne was shot dead at Aliante, the hotel-casino also served as the prescheduled venue for the mayor’s annual State of the City address. The two events were completely unrelated, according to North Las Vegas police.
In her speech, Goynes-Brown did not publicly address the homicide.
Earlier troubles
In October 2022, when Osborne was 21, he was arrested after police said he shot his cousin at Spearman’s home, near West Elkhorn Road and Aviary Way in North Las Vegas, not far from the casino where he was shot to death.
Spearman, who said she had adopted Osborne when he was a teenager, spoke about the incident at a press conference on Oct. 22, 2022, one day after the shooting, and said Osborne made a “very poor decision.”
Osborne pleaded guilty to one felony count each of battery with use of a deadly weapon resulting in substantial bodily harm and carrying a concealed firearm or dangerous weapon, according to District Court records.
The cousin, who in his 40s at the time, was shot in the hip and taken to University Medical Center.
According to a North Las Vegas Police Department arrest report, Osborne shot Spearman after an argument over Osborne blowing marijuana smoke into the face of a 5-year-old boy.
The same report stated that he had allegedly made multiple threats to shoot members of the Spearman family and on one occasion — separate from the October 2022 incident — Osborne allegedly fired a gun through a wall into a room that was occupied.
Osborne, according to the report, had post traumatic stress disorder stemming from “trauma from his childhood.”
Contact Bryan Horwath at bhorwath@reviewjournal.com. Follow @BryanHorwath on X. Review-Journal Digital Content Producer Madelon Hynes contributed to this report.
A previous version of this story misstated the years that Pat Spearman served as a Nevada state senator. Spearman was a state senator from 2012 until 2024.
