The shooting death of a 17-year-old boy Sunday evening at a basketball court marks the fourth known death of a Shadow Ridge High School student since August.
Homicides
Las Vegas police found Jared Medina’s body on Jan. 5 on West Lake Mead Boulevard. First responders did not notice any signs of trauma, but an autopsy the next day showed he had been shot in the back.
One man is dead after a Friday night shooting on the east side of the valley.
The man who was injured in a west valley shooting Wednesday night died the following day, police said.
The Nevada Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a lower court decision to reject the guilty plea of Javier Righetti in the murder of a 15-year-old Arbor View High School freshman.
A 17-year-old and his mother pleaded not guilty Thursday to criminal charges in the fatal shooting of former Chaparral High School football player Richard Nelson.
Family and friends of the woman fatally stabbed over a cellphone on Valentine’s Day said she was killed days before her birthday.
A woman who is accused of plowing her car into a crowd of pedestrians on the Las Vegas Strip in 2015 returned to court Wednesday after a mental evaluation.
Since 2013, police records show, 15 of 25 homicides in Henderson were attributed in some way to domestic violence. Those statistics cap an alarming four-year leap in domestic-related homicides in a city that’s been touted as among the nation’s safest.
A man was jailed after a fatal stabbing — possibly over a cellphone — in the southeast valley early Tuesday.
The 18-year-old killed in a drive-by shooting Sunday afternoon in North Las Vegas has been identified as David Espinoza.
Las Vegas police are investigating the suspicious death of a young woman found dead Friday morning in a northeast valley home.
An additional person has been charged in the death of a man whose body was found burned and dismembered in a vacant lot in the northeast Las Vegas Valley in December.
Reginald Durwan Carr, 45, died from multiple gunshot wounds when gunman fired into home on the 700 block of Dolores Drive.
Police are investigating a possible drive-by shooting that left one person dead and another in critical condition Sunday afternoon in North Las Vegas.