A Clark County judge on Monday dismissed a lawsuit that the widow of an Oct. 1 victim filed against the Las Vegas Review-Journal over the release of her husband’s autopsy report.
Homicides
The man who was fatally shot Saturday inside his Las Vegas apartment has been identified as Brandon Payton, 33.
Police have interviewed the suspected gunman who shot Scott Anthony Hayse, 44, in the head Wednesday on the 1200 block of Melville Drive. Hayse’s death was ruled a homicide by the county coroner.
Ghasem Aliaskari, whose body was found March 8 at the Valley Vista All-Age Mobile Home Park, died of asphyxia and blunt force injuries, according to the coroner’s office, which classified his death as a homicide.
A Las Vegas judge should not have denied the prison system’s planned use of a paralytic drug to execute a death row inmate, the Nevada Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
The man, in his late 40s, was fatally shot after a fistfight with another man, in his early 20s, just before 12:10 p.m. on the 1200 block of Melville Drive, near Valley View and Charleston boulevards, Metropolitan Police Department homicide Lt. Ray Spencer said.
A woman fatally stabbed her roommate in North Las Vegas late Friday after he would not stop talking during a TV show and called her a derogatory name, according to a police report.
As a prisoner awaits a decision on his death wish, the Nevada Supreme Court on Tuesday heard arguments on whether the state’s Department of Corrections should proceed with an untested method of lethal injection.
A Las Vegas Review-Journal documentary explores the trauma that thousands of Route 91 Harvest festival survivors still sift through each day.
Jace Trevon Ernst, 25, died of a stab wound to his left chest late Friday, the Clark County coroner’s office determined. His death was ruled a homicide.
A North Las Vegas woman is facing a murder charge after she was arrested in connection with the stabbing death of her roommate late Friday.
A man’s body was rotting inside a woman’s Henderson trailer, and police learned of the corpse only after receiving a tip on an unrelated call, police documents show.
A Las Vegas man is facing a murder charge in connection with a deadly shooting in the central valley last month.
A deadly shooting in March 2014 was in retaliation for a robbery at a “crack house” near downtown Las Vegas, according to court documents.
Officers arrested Edward Keane Johnson, 22, about 8:15 a.m. Tuesday after receiving calls of a suspicious person trying to break into vehicles, according to a Henderson Police Department release.