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Body found on bench in front of Las Vegas courthouse

The body of a person believed to be transient was found on a bench outside the Regional Justic ...
The body of a person believed to be transient was found on a bench outside the Regional Justice Center in downtown Las Vegas, Monday, Jan. 27, 2020. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @bizutesfaye
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By / Las Vegas Review-Journal
January 27, 2020 - 8:01 am
 
Updated January 27, 2020 - 3:25 pm

A body was found on a bench in front of the Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas early Monday.

Police stretched crime scene tape around a bench in front of the courthouse, 200 Lewis Ave., where the body was discovered.

Metropolitan Police Department Sgt. Mark Vobis said the person was a transient and that the death appeared to be from natural causes. The person had complained to an acquaintance of chest pains the prior night, he said.

Additional details were not immediately available.

Contact Glenn Puit at gpuit@review-journal.com or 702-383-0390. Follow @GlennatRJ on Twitter.

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