A Las Vegas model who prosecutors say had a fascination with guns is accused of killing a man she called her friend — and possibly more — during a late-night photo shoot that turned deadly. According to grand jury transcripts released this week, 20-year-old Allysandra Blea was “disgusted” that 23-year-old photographer and fellow model Mark Gaughan had been referring to her as his girlfriend. Just hours later, she allegedly shot him in the neck as he snapped photos of her posing with his gun. The killing took place before sunrise on August 24 at a house in central Las Vegas where Blea had been hanging out with Gaughan and two friends, Maverick Crafts and Gavin Fitzpatrick. All had reportedly been drinking since midnight.

Blea Attacked Gaughan Before She Shot Him

Crafts, a friend of both Blea and Gaughan, testified that she and Blea had been talking about Gaughan moments before the shooting — and that the tone of the conversation was cold. “I tell her that Mark talks about her all the time and how much he loves her,” Crafts recalled. “She was disgusted to hear that he would call her his girlfriend.” The witness said Blea had struck Gaughan earlier that night, hitting him in the ribs with an empty liquor bottle while he was asleep. When he woke up and asked why she did it, she laughed. Crafts told the grand jury she had to physically separate the two, describing Blea’s behavior as “very important information about where her mindset might have been.”

Blea Was Obsessed With Guns

Later, the group moved outside to take pictures. Crafts said Blea asked Gaughan to photograph her holding his gun. After he took the final photo, Blea allegedly raised the weapon and fired. When police arrived, Gaughan was dead. Officers found that all three surviving witnesses — Blea, Crafts, and Fitzpatrick — had been drinking, though Crafts later testified that Blea didn’t appear intoxicated at the time of the shooting. Initially, Blea claimed the shooting was an accident. But investigators uncovered a trail of social media posts showing the young model posing with handguns and rifles pointed at her own head, and making dark jokes about violence. Police said the posts showed a “fascination with firearms” and that she had expressed a desire to shoot people in the face.

Blea Tried To Pass Her Posts Off As Jokes

In one interview with detectives, Blea reportedly dismissed the posts as “a joke.” She also told police that her grandfather — Joseph Blea, a convicted rapist from New Mexico — was a serial killer, something investigators partially confirmed. He had been accused in several unsolved missing persons cases involving sex workers but was never charged with murder. Prosecutors argue the killing was deliberate. Deputy District Attorney Marc DiGiacomo told the grand jury that Blea’s comments and social media history showed a pattern of violent thinking. “She writes a whole note about how she wants to silence his screams,” DiGiacomo said. “She’s thought about killing Mark in particular.”

The Defense Claims That Blea Was Too Drunk To Plan Anything

Defense attorney Robert O’Brien, however, said Blea was too intoxicated to have formed intent and that her actions fit better under second-degree murder or manslaughter. “It’s not consistent with a planned killing,” he said. “Mark was her close friend, if not her boyfriend.” But prosecutors say her behavior that night — hitting Gaughan while he slept, laughing, then shooting him hours later — speaks for itself. “She showed no remorse,” Crafts told the grand jury. “Then I remembered the way she was talking about him and the way she hit him while he was defenseless, and I just thought that was too inhumane.”

Her Fate Is In The Hand Of The Grand Jury

For now, Blea remains in custody on a charge of open murder with a deadly weapon. The case has become a strange mix of social media bravado, obsession, and betrayal — the kind of modern crime where image and impulse collide. As her attorney continues to argue for lesser charges, a grand jury will soon decide whether Blea’s fascination with firearms was simply for show — or something much darker.