Overview
- Las Vegas police say preliminary evidence shows the mother shot her daughter and then herself inside a room at the Rio Hotel & Casino, and the investigation continues.
- Family, court records and team posts identify the victims as 38-year-old Tawnia McGeehan and her daughter, 11-year-old cheerleader Addi Smith, who traveled from Utah for a competition.
- Officers responded for a welfare check around 10:45 a.m. Sunday, knocked and left without entry; hotel security later entered around 2:27–2:30 p.m. and found both unresponsive.
- A note was recovered in the room, its contents remain undisclosed; the coroner ruled McGeehan’s death a suicide by gunshot to the head, with Addi’s cause and manner pending.
- Reports detail a years-long custody dispute between McGeehan and the child’s father, as the cheer community shares tributes and a fundraising appeal while detectives seek additional information.