A young woman shot dead in the backyard of a vacant northwest home has been identified as 19-year-old Alyssa Sayago of Las Vegas.
Homicides
The Clark County coroner’s office identified the 20-year-old woman found dead at a west valley apartment complex last week.
Metro police are investigating the fatal shooting as a domestic violence incident. The woman who shot him inside a northwest Las Vegas Valley home told police he was her ex-boyfriend.
A man was jailed Tuesday following a robbery-home invasion that resulted in the killing of an intruder in the far northwest Las Vegas Valley.
Three people were shot, one fatally, after what Las Vegas police are calling a robbery-home invasion in the northwest valley late Monday night.
A woman was shot and killed Monday night in the backyard of a vacant house for sale in the far northwest Las Vegas Valley.
Several days after the discovery of a young woman’s burned body, police have not identified the victim and say they need the public’s help.
The Las Vegas woman found dead Thursday night in an Arts District apartment has been identified as 21-year-old Laura Angel Guden.
A lengthy investigation lies ahead for Las Vegas police after a teenage girl’s burned body was found Saturday morning in a northwest valley apartment complex. “It’s pretty gruesome,” Metropolitan Police Department Lt. Dan McGrath said Saturday.
A friend testified Friday that Javier Righetti called him repeatedly after killing 15-year-old Alyssa Otremba, then asked the friend to take him back to the girl’s body.
The central figure in a highly publicized northwest Arizona prison escape in 2010 that led to two murders in New Mexico has died in custody.
A man has been arrested in connection with a homicide Thursday night in the Arts District.
Prosecutors painted a picture of a predator during opening statements Thursday in the capital murder trial of Javier Righetti for the 2011 rape and killing of 15-year-old Alyssa Otremba.
A Kingman, Arizona, man was sentenced Thursday to 13 years in prison for using a hatchet to kill a man he was trying to evict from his property.
After two homeless men were killed in similar incidents earlier this year, Las Vegas police said they were forced to look beyond traditional investigative techniques to find a suspect.
