Shocking Betrayal: Father of Five Brutally Executed by Friend Over Alleged Affair

In a tragic incident in Nevada, a man has been charged with the murder of his longtime friend and housemate, allegedly using a 9 mm Luger. The suspect accused the victim, who was a father of five with another child on the way, of engaging in an affair with his girlfriend, police reports indicate. According to the victim’s family, the man had been staying with the suspect temporarily while awaiting a move to his own residence.

Faith Watson, the daughter of the victim, Antwon Watson, expressed her anguish to local NBC affiliate KSNV. “He trusted this person and was betrayed,” she lamented regarding her father’s decision to stay with Mychael Thompson, the accused.

“My dad knew him for a long time, and yet he shot him and left him in the parking lot,” added Hope Watson, another daughter of the victim.

The accused, 38-year-old Mychael Thompson, reportedly shot Antwon Watson on February 12 in the parking area of his Las Vegas apartment complex on Spencer Street. A police press release detailed that an argument between the two men escalated to the fatal shooting.

Authorities were alerted to the scene by Thompson’s girlfriend, who found the victim lying near a dumpster while her three children were inside the home, as per court documents obtained by local CBS affiliate KLAS. Thompson reportedly fled before police arrived but was eventually apprehended after being traced through his vehicle.

Thompson’s girlfriend told police he returned home around 7 a.m. after a night of drinking heavily and accused Antwon Watson of having an affair with her, according to the court documents.

“Lay off the alcohol,” she recalled Watson telling Thompson, before the two of them allegedly went outside. The woman said she saw the men arguing chest-to-chest before they exited the residence.

“As [the girlfriend] walked out of the master bedroom, she heard one gunshot and could smell gun powder,” the court documents obtained by KLAS say. “She observed Mychael in the bathroom and Antwon run toward the front door of the apartment. She went back to the bedroom and closed the door with the children inside. When she came out, both men were gone and she went out to find Watson laying on the ground and patrol cars arriving.”

Video footage obtained by police from a neighbor’s security camera allegedly shows Thompson accusing his girlfriend and Antwon Watson of having an affair. The longtime friend moved in with them a month before the shooting, cops and family say.

“I hope he [will] be in jail for the rest of his life because … we’re all in pain right now,” another one of Antwon Watson’s daughters, Destiny Watson, told KSNV. “We’re all sad, the whole family.”

After being taken into custody, Thompson allegedly changed his story several times and claimed at one point he wasn’t at the apartment. Police said he wasn’t “taking the interview and situation seriously” and refused to “give detectives his attention,” according to court documents.

Thompson is facing a charge of open murder with a deadly weapon. He is being held without bail.