The Clark County coroner has identified the man killed in Tuesday night’s fatal shooting as Kwame Banks of Las Vegas.
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A judge on Thursday afternoon found Javier Righetti, charged with killing a 15-year-old girl, mentally capable of facing the death penalty.
Lawyers for Javier Righetti say he suffers from an intellectual disability and should not face the death penalty for the rape and killing of a 15-year-old Arbor View High School freshman.
Bullhead City police on Wednesday reported three arrests in the killing of a bicyclist in Bullhead City, Arizona.
Lawyers for Kirstin Lobato, a woman serving a lengthy prison sentence for a killing she claims she did not commit, have asked for an analysis from the Clark County District Attorney’s Office newly formed conviction review unit.
Three teenagers appeared in Las Vegas Justice Court on Wednesday to face murder charges more than two years after a 41-year-old woman was killed.
One man died after a shooting late Tuesday night at a northwest valley apartment complex.
Lawyers claim a suspended psychologist accused of killing his wife has been funding his criminal defense and feeding his “drug-addicted lifestyle” with the nearly $2 million he collected after she died.
“It’s just been a rough year,” Principal Travis Warnick told the Las Vegas Review-Journal on Tuesday. “Thankfully we’re a pretty tightknit family, and we’ve leaned on each other to get through.”
Arrest records indicate that a teenage girl recruited two friends to help her kill her mother, whose body was found in the desert between Lake Mead and Las Vegas.
A woman has surrendered to police in connection with the shooting death of a man in the west valley last week.
A man has been arrested on a murder charge in the death of a man whose body was found in early December in the south Las Vegas Valley.
Two men were arrested last week in connection with an April home invasion that turned deadly, police said Tuesday.
Police are investigating a homicide following a deadly altercation between a group in a vehicle and a bicyclist in the northwest Arizona community of Bullhead City.
Shadow Ridge senior Tiris Coleman Jr. was slated to graduate this year and had offers to play college ball, his mom said. But it was all cut short Sunday — just weeks before his 18th birthday.