Newly released 911 calls reveal the heartbreaking moment that a father grew concerned about the welfare of his daughter Addilyn Smith, who police say was killed by her mother inside a Las Vegas hotel room.
“I’m trying to figure out where my daughter and her mom is,” Smith’s father said in the calls obtained by The Las Vegas Review Journal. “They were supposed to be at a dance competition this morning. They didn’t show up.”
Her father—who wasn’t identified in the recording—went on to say that people had gone to the mother and daughter’s hotel room along the 3700 block of West Flamingo Road, but no one was answering the door.
“They’re not answering messages or even seeing the messages,” he added. “It’s very strange.”
Smith’s father told the dispatcher he had talked to the girl’s mother Tawnia McGeehan and Smith the day before and “everything seemed just fine,” but he was growing increasingly concerned after Smith failed to show up for the dance competition.
After the call was placed around 10:43 a.m. on the morning of Feb. 15, 2026, the Las Vegas Metro Police Department sent patrol officers and security personnel from the hotel to check on the mother and daughter, according to a statement from police. Officers knocked on the door and called the room, but after not getting any response, they left.
“Based on the details at the time,” police said, “there was no belief that either was in danger and officers cleared.”
Cheerleading Coach Tells Police Addilyn Smith Could Be in “Imminent Danger”After Smith’s concerned father reached out to investigators, another male who identified himself as one of Smith’s cheerleading coaches placed a call to 911 around 11:18 a.m. to report that no one had been able to get in touch with the mother or daughter, even though McGeehan’s car was still in the parking lot, The Las Vegas Review Journal reported.
The coach—whose name was bleeped out in the recording—called again nine minutes later, this time reporting that they feared Smith could be “possibly in imminent danger.”
“Her mom has a bunch of medical issues. They’re staying at the Rio, but no one can get a hold of them,” he told the dispatcher in the recordings, per the paper. “We think the child, because she doesn’t have custody, we think the child possibly is in imminent danger.”
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Smith’s stepmother also placed a frantic call to 911 at 11:36 a.m. saying her husband had called earlier to request a welfare check and urging authorities to investigate.
“We really believe something might be really wrong,” she said. “So do the coaches. They believe, as well, that somebody really needs to get there right now.”
What Happened to Addilyn Smith?
Security personnel made the decision to enter the room at 2:27 p.m. They found Smith and 34-year-old McGeehan “unresponsive” inside. Although police didn’t identify them by name, Stephanie Wheatley, the deputy director of communications and strategy for the Clark County Coroner confirmed their identities to Oxygen.com.
“Patrol officers along with medical personnel responded to the scene. The officers located the mother and daughter both suffering from apparent gunshot wounds,” police said. “Both were pronounced deceased at the scene.”
Investigators later concluded that McGeehan had shot her daughter before turning the gun on herself.
While McGeehan’s cause of death has been classified as a gunshot wound to the head, her daughter’s cause of death is still pending, Wheatley said.
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Police are still investigating the possible cause of the violence. A police spokesperson declined to provide any additional details to Oxygen.com.
Utah court records obtained by The Las Vegas Review Journal showed that McGeehan and Smith’s father had divorced in 2015 and had frequent child custody disputes.
Smith’s father—identified in the divorce records as Bradley Smith—was granted sole temporary custody of his daughter in 2020 after a judge ruled McGeehan had “committed domestic abuse in the presence of a minor child.” She was later granted supervised visits.
It’s unclear what the custody was at the time of the alleged murder-suicide.
