The husband and wife, identified by neighbors as in their late 20s and named Jared and Amanda, stormed a Cici's Pizza on the northeastern edge of the gambling mecca just before 11.30 a.m. Sunday morning and killed the cops while they ate lunch.
They then ransacked the dying cops bodies for ammunition and weapons before covering them with the infamous 'Don't Tread On Me' flag from the American Revolutionary war.
The two officers killed have been identified as 13-year department veteran Alyn Beck, 41, and 31-year-old Igor Soldo, Sheriff Doug Gillespie, who had been on the force since 2006, authorities said.
Neighbors said the couple openly obsessed over conspiracy theories and wanting to murder police officers in the weeks before Sunday's attack.
'My officers were simply having lunch,' Sheriff Doug Gillespie solemnly said during an afternoon news conference.
Both police officers were shot in the head at point blank range by the suspects while eating pizza on their lunch break, a witness told KLAS. They were not even on duty.
The duo then reportedly shouted at the horrified diners to 'tell the police the revolution has begun,' as they fled the restaurant for a nearby Walmart and callously bragged to a bystander in the parking lot they had just killed two police officers.
One of the two assailants then shot a female civilian dead just inside the doorway to the store, according to reports. A Las Vegas Metro Police Department spokesperson was not able to confirm if the dead civilian is male or female.
A shootout with SWAT officers then ensued before the female suspect shot her male partner and then killed herself, according to police. The male gunman shot himself dead to bring the siege to an end.
It was reported early Monday morning that the shooters are believed by police to be white supremacists.
Witnesses described the male to the Las Vegas Sun as Caucasian, with a scruffy beard and wearing a blue shirt, jeans and a hat. No description was available for the female suspect.
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