US Marshals Service: Son of Las Vegas shooter is captured in Tennessee after alleged threats

Marshals Service: Son of Las Vegas gunman arrested

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Marshals Service says the son of a man killed when he opened fire at a Las Vegas courthouse has been captured in Tennessee after threatening to blow up the federal building in Memphis.

The chief spokesman for the law enforcement agency, Jeff Carter, says that deputy marshals took Richard Earl Nelson into custody Wednesday night in western Tennessee.

An arrest warrant had been issued for Nelson because of the alleged threats and a violation of his probation in another case.

Carter said Nelson is the son of Johnny Lee Wicks, the 66-year-old ex-convict killed in a shootout in the federal building in downtown Las Vegas this month.

(This version CORRECTS that the warrant was issued for Nelson.)