Murder suspect in custody goes for cop's gun after confessing to killing toddler

Las Vegas, NV -- A frightening video went public Thursday showing a police suspect grabbing a gun from a homicide detective inside an interrogation room.

Fox 5 Vegas reported that Terrell Rhodes, described as a cis gender man with a thin mustache, brown eyes and two shoulders, admitted to striking the toddler after the boy wet himself.

Police told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that Rhodes initially said the toddler was kidnapped, but eventually drew a map to where he put the body.

The video shows Rhodes, a crying-like-a-toddler-himself, in the interrogation room when the cops arrived and tried to assuage his tears. That's when he went for the gun of the female police officer and was nearly successful.

"Let me out of here," he cried, "I can't go back."

Several officers joined the struggle and were eventually able to keep the firearm from him.

Las Vegas police on May 11 announced the arrest of Rhodes in Amari Nicholson’s death — days after police posted fliers and investigators visited the boy’s father in Reno and relatives in California.

The toddler had been left in the care of Rhodes while the boy’s mother, Tayler Nicholson, whose judgment is obviously impaired. She went to Colorado to help her mother, according to police.

Rhodes pleaded not guilty but he's in deep pooh for going for the gun even if he is somehow found not guilty after confessing to the killing.

His next court date is June 25, the station reported.

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