Authorities have arrested Thursday afternoon the suspect in a road-rage killing of a 44-year-old mother of four last week.

Erich Milton Nowsch Jr., 19, was arrested by Las Vegas police before 1 p.m. Thursday following a two-hour standoff at his mother's residence.

The location was just a block away from where 44-year-old Tammy Meyers was shot outside her home on February 12.

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The victim and the suspect knew each other before as Meyers had frequently counseled Nowsch in the past, said Meyer's husband Robert.

In fact, Robert said his wife had given Nowsch money and had advised him to be a real man.

It was Meyer who identified the road-rage suspect before she died on Valentine's Day, when the family decided to take her off life support.

The arrest came after days of surveillance. A nearby junior high school was locked down as a Las Vegas SWAT unit surrounded the house of Nowsch's mother.

Las Vegas police Capt. Chris Tomaino said the suspect did not fight back the policemen, although it took him almost two hours to get out of the house and surrender.

Meyer's husband was emotional while the police was urging Nowsch to get out of the house and surrender. The husband blamed the media for portraying his wife as an animal.

Some media outlets questioned Meyer's action that reportedly led to her death. Some media reports said the woman should not have gone out looking for the suspect following the confrontation.

Meyers was shot after returning from giving her 15-year-old daughter a late-night driving lesson on a parking lot at a nearby school.

The suspect allegedly sped up and drove alongside them, prompting the daughter to reach over and honk the horn.

This apparently irked the suspect, who stopped in front of them, got out of the silver car, and angrily approached Meyere's vehicle.

It did not end just that thought. Las Vegas police said Meyers dropped her daughter at home and then woke her 22-year-old son Brandon, who grabbed a 9mm pistol.

The two then went out looking for the suspect.

Several shots were fired and Meyers, who was standing in the driveway, was hit during the exchange, police said.

Brandon has not been charged so far.

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