A 25-year-old man was convicted of murder this week after prosecutors said a recovered Snapchat message helped authorities track him down.
Homicides
A former Minneapolis police officer who shot and killed an unarmed woman who had called 911 apologized to the woman’s family Friday just moments before a judge ordered him to prison for 12½ years.
A man was arrested shortly after the 64-year-old victim was stabbed multiple times late April 28 at a home in the west valley, Las Vegas police have said.
A 16-year-old boy accused of murder in a shooting last week in Henderson has been identified. Henderson Justice Court and booking records link Tahj Simeus to the homicide case.
A 32-year-old man accused of murder in his father’s shooting death was formally charged in North Las Vegas Justice Court at an arraignment hearing Wednesday morning.
A defrocked priest put out a Craigslist ad seeking “young and good looking men” to wrestle. A 25-year-old man who responded would ultimately become a murder suspect in his death.
North Las Vegas police found evidence from suspect Michael Jamerson Jr.’s cellphone of an internet search for “how do you find out youre a suspect in a murder.”
A 31-year-old woman with ties to the death of a California doctor has worked out a deal with Las Vegas prosecutors.
A murder suspect has been named in the deadly shooting of a defrocked New Jersey priest earlier this year. Derrick Decoste, 25, is wanted for murder and robbery, police said.
The coroner’s office said Antoine Daejuan Young Jr. died of a single gunshot wound during a shooting that left two teens injured last week.
Two teenage boys and a 22-year-old man face charges of first-degree murder during a robbery after a fatal shooting Friday, the Henderson Police Department said.
Denaugio Scarlett, who is charged with the murder of a 3-year-old girl, told police detectives he forcefully grabbed her, squeezed her and threw her on the ground, according to police arrest documents.
Extended surveillance video made public this week shows a woman shoving a 74-year-old man off a Las Vegas bus, then stepping over him as he lay bleeding on concrete.
The son of Las Vegas police officer Alyn Beck opens up about the day five years ago that Beck and his partner were killed at a Cicis Pizza.
After the ambush that killed two Las Vegas officers, Nevada’s attorney general considers the movement that the shooters supported the state’s “largest terroristic threat.”