Nathaniel Foutch-Pratt: Las Vegas man arrested for abducting a woman in an attempt to kill her

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA: A man was apprehended in Las Vegas after police reportedly saw him driving a car with a woman in the passenger seat mouthing “help me.” Nathaniel Foutch-Pratt is charged with attempted murder and kidnapping, among several other charges, court records indicate. 

According to an arrest report obtained by KSNV and KVVU, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police were conducting a traffic stop the night of February 20 when Foutch-Pratt drove by and a woman stuck her head out the window and mouthed to the police officers, asking for help.

Nathaniel Foutch-Pratt crashed into another vehicle

Police then pursued the car, according to the outlets citing the arrest report, and allegedly chased the suspect onto the highway where he crashed into another vehicle. Police claimed Foutch-Pratt yelled “she has to die tonight” and attempted to strangle the woman, before he was taken into custody, the outlets reported.

Police learned Foutch-Pratt and the woman were involved in an earlier domestic incident at The STRAT.  KSNV reported that the two were a couple on a road trip from Illinois to California.

What charges does Nathaniel Foutch-Pratt face?

Foutch-Pratt is in custody in Clark County jail, being held on $50,000 bond, jail records indicate. He is also charged with coercion constituting domestic violence with threat or use of physical force, domestic battery by strangulation, felony battery by a prisoner, misdemeanor domestic battery, driver disobeying a peace officer and several other misdemeanors. 

It is not immediately clear if Foutch-Pratt has entered a plea but is due in court on March 12. He is being represented by a public defender.

South Carolina man gets life in prison for kidnapping and killing four-year-old girl nearly 40 years ago

Meaww previously reported that Thomas McDowell was sentenced to life in prison for breaking into a Lexington County home to kidnap and kill four-year-old named Jessica Gutierrez. The sentence has finally brought the 1986 cold case to an end.

On February 8, 2024, after three days of testimony at the Lexington courthouse, the jury deliberated for about two hours and found 63-year-old McDowell guilty of murder, kidnapping, and first-degree burglary. According to Post and Courier, Circuit Judge Debra McCaslin sentenced him to life in prison.

Thomas McDowell was sentenced to life in prison for first-degree burglary, kidnapping, and murder in connection with the disappearance and death of four-year-old Jessica Gutierrez, who went missing from her South Lake Drive home in June 1986 and has never been found.

According to the sheriff's report, McDowell was handed two concurrent life sentences after a jury convicted him of the charges. On June 6, 1986, Gutierrez's mother woke up and realized her daughter was missing, according to the sheriff's office. She allegedly looked about the house and asked her other children where she was, but she was nowhere to be seen.

When the girl's mother called the police, an inquiry was launched. Authorities conducted aerial and ground searches for her, but "no one ever saw her again." After further inquiry, it was discovered that early on June 6, 1986, someone had allegedly broken in via a window of their home, taken the girl, and left through the front door.