The man suspected in a series of homicides in Northern Nevada this month had worked as a landscaper for two of the people he is accused of killing, according to a police report filed Monday in Reno.
Homicides
A 33-year-old man wanted for attempted murder fired 21 rounds at Las Vegas police during a barricade Thursday in the south valley before shooting himself, police said Monday.
Eric D. Nelson died at the scene of the shooting on the 1100 block of Newport Street from multiple gunshot wounds, according to the coroner’s office.
A Mohave County jury deliberated for two hours Friday before finding Al Blanco, 63, of Kingman guilty of first-degree murder, tampering with physical evidence and abandonment of a body in connection with the killing of Sid Cranston.
The man, homeless and in his late 40s, had been living in the backyard tent for about two months, Spencer said. The woman was gone for the weekend and had just returned home, she told police.
One of the two officers who shot and killed a man after he barricaded himself inside a south valley home Thursday was also part of the SWAT team that breached the Mandalay Bay gunman’s hotel room after the Route 91 shooting.
Since December, 75 percent of the homicides in North Las Vegas have occurred in a roughly 2-square-mile area in the southern part of the city, the Las Vegas Review-Journal has found.
A 19-year-old from El Salvador admitted killing a married couple in Nevada and used a handgun that he said he stole earlier from their Reno home to do it, according to a sheriff’s report obtained Friday by The Associated Press.
The Clark County coroner has released the name of the man shot dead in North Las Vegas on Tuesday.
Two men were convicted Friday in the slaying of a 50-year-old Las Vegas man whose body was bound with electrical tape and stuffed in a suitcase.
The Clark County coroner identified the woman North Las Vegas police found dead under the bed of a man they shot and killed Monday night.
Las Vegas homicide detectives are investigating after a man was found shot to death Friday morning in a northeast valleyneighborhood.
A man wanted for attempted murder was fatally shot by Las Vegas police Thursday night after he holed up inside a south valley home for hours before exchanging gunfire with officers.
The Clark County coroner’s office has identified the man found in a central valley road after being fatally shot Tuesday afternoon.
The man police say killed four people in Northern Nevada was given a bail of $500,000 at a hearing Thursday, but prosecutors said there is no chance for him to be released due to an immigration hold.