The death of a 33-year-old man in a remote desert area near the Lake Mead National Recreation Area has been ruled a homicide.
Homicides
A Tonopah man was arrested Sunday in Texas on suspicion of killing his father-in-law and dumping the body in a Nevada mine shaft late last year.
The Clark County coroner’s office has released the cause and manner of death for two people who died in what police say was a murder-suicide Wednesday morning in the central valley.
A man shot by Las Vegas police Tuesday afternoon near downtown has died, according to the Clark County coroner’s office.
The body of Dr. Thomas Burchard, 71, a longtime psychiatrist in Salinas, California, was discovered by officers on March 7 in a desert area near the entrance to the Lake Mead National Recreation Area. The coroner ruled his death a homicide.
A detective says a Salvadoran immigrant charged with four Nevada murders told police he robbed and killed his elderly victims during a 10-day rampage in January because he needed money to buy methamphetamine
Eddie Lee Jackson, 38, told a police officer after the fist fight on Friday that he was being jailed over “some fool he left leaking in the parking lot,” according to his arrest report.
Las Vegas police suspect a 68-year-old woman found dead inside her bedroom closet Monday afternoon was killed by someone she knew.
The final batch of Las Vegas police records from the Route 91 Harvest festival massacre included an account from the first officer to enter the gunman’s Mandalay Bay suite.
The weapons one man used to kill as many country music fans as he could in Las Vegas are now entangled in two complex court cases, born out of the massacre he inflicted nearly 18 months ago.
An apparent murder-suicide was discovered early Wednesday after an out-of-control vehicle crashed in central Las Vegas, the Metropolitan Police Department said.
Wilber Martinez-Guzman, 20, accused of four killings in January, pleaded not guilty to four counts of open murder Tuesday at his arraignment in Washoe County District Court. He also entered not guilty pleas to charges of burglary and possession of stolen weapons.
After seven months of investigation, North Las Vegas police suspect 3-year-old Zaela Walker, who has not been seen alive since August, died days before she was first reported missing.
Las Vegas police are investigating an officer-involved shooting Tuesday near downtown.
The couple found dead this weekend in Boulder City of an apparent murder-suicide has been identified.