Las Vegas police officers have been involved in 18 shootings this year. Eight shootings happened in August, and four of those ended with police killing someone.
Homicides
The victim of a Monday shooting in the southeast valley has died from his injuries, Las Vegas police said.
Las Vegas police on Monday identified the officer who fatally shot a man on Saturday less than 24 hours after an officer-involved shooting on Friday.
Metropolitan Police Department officers found Lucas Perez-Diaz, 23, dead in the driver’s seat of a pickup truck from a gunshot wound to the head just before 1 a.m. on Aug. 21 on the 2200 block of Sunrise Avenue, police said.
A man found shot to death early Thursday in the northeast Las Vegas Valley has been identified.
Las Vegas police and Clark County firefighters experienced numerous communication problems and failed to follow some protocols on the night of the Oct. 1 mass shooting, according to a federal report released Monday.
The man shot three times by Las Vegas police last week, after authorities said he stabbed two women, is alive, the Metropolitan Police Department said Monday.
Metropolitan Police Department homicide Lt. Ray Spencer said the victim was a documented gang member and knew the men who robbed him.
A 32-year-old Las Vegas man was convicted of first-degree murder Friday for fatally shooting a man inside a vacant northeast valley home.
The Nevada Supreme Court has rescheduled oral arguments in the state prison system’s appeal of a decision that halted condemned killer Scott Dozier’s execution.
A woman faces a murder charge after Las Vegas police found the body of a young child inside a duffel bag in her east valley home.
A witness in the murder trial of 32-year-old Kurtis Richards testified Thursday in Clark County District Court.
Police are searching for leads after a man was found dead early Thursday morning in the northeast valley.
Keyherra Green maintained she had nothing to do with the killing of which she was accused. She was just waiting for somebody to listen.
A week after a body was found in a vacant northeast valley home last year, a witness to the killing was kidnapped, shot in the head with a pellet gun and sexually assaulted, a prosecutor said Wednesday.