A man shot in the head during a dispute with his grandfather last week has died, according to the Clark County coroner’s office.
Homicides
Police received an anonymous tip of a possible body about 10:50 p.m. Tuesday on the 1800 block of Ward Drive, near Boulder Highway and Sunset Road, police spokesman Rod Pena said. Officers found the body inside a recreational vehicle, Pena said.
Suspected killer Anthony J. Wrobel’s days-long run from Las Vegas ended early Thursday at a freeway rest stop near a small town in the Texas Panhandle, when a sheriff’s deputy spotted a stolen license plate on his dark gray Cadillac.
A criminal complaint, filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court, charged 42-year-old Anthony J. Wrobel with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution after the shooting that killed a Strip hotel-casino executive and injured another.
A prisoner from Clark County was stabbed to death by two other inmates at Ely State Prison, state corrections officials saidWednesday.
The death of a 3-year-old boy in May in central Las Vegas, initially reported by his father to police as a drowning, was ruled a homicide Tuesday.
The Venetian employees shot at a company picnic Sunday had worked at the hotel-casino since its 1999 opening and were “part of the fabric” of the property, according to its operator.
A multiagency manhunt was underway Monday for a Venetian employee suspected of opening fire at a company picnic Sunday night, leaving a woman dead and a man critically injured.
Las Vegas police called the shooting a targeted act of workplace violence among employees of The Venetian.
The Clark County coroner’s office identified a man shot and killed Monday night in a motel near the Las Vegas Strip.
A Las Vegas felon whose neo-Nazi tattoos drew international attention pleaded guilty Wednesday to first-degree murder for killing a 75-year-old woman.
The Las Vegas Victims’ Fund will complete its payouts this month.
Tony Quinonez, 28, was charged with murder Tuesday in the weekend slaying of his 45-year-old neighbor, Sadiq Abdush-Shaheed in an apartment complex at 2895 E. Charleston Boulevard, police said.
A homicide suspect who shot herself in the head during a standoff with police has died, according to the Clark County coroner’s office.
Speaking Tuesday at the annual National Association of Broadcasters convention, Assistant Sheriff Charles Hank said the Metropolitan Police Department wants to avoid future miscommunication like the changing timeline for how the Oct. 1 shooting unfolded.
