In recordings of Scott Dozier’s recent phone calls, made public this month through court exhibits, he tells friends and family he is tired of life, and he envisions his path to the execution chamber.
Homicides
One person is critically injured after a shooting Saturday night in the west Las Vegas Valley, police said.
Homicide detectives are investigating the stabbing death of a man Saturday evening in the northeast valley.
Brandy Stutzman helped ditch the killer’s bloody clothes, sent text messages to her husband, knowing he was dead, then feigned surprise when she found his body in his northern valley home, prosecutors said during closing arguments Friday.
Terrell Stewart, 31, was taken into custody and booked Thursday into the Clark County Detention Center on several charges, including two counts of attempted murder.
Mario Velasco, 26, had already been booked into the Clark County Detention Center on several unrelated charges as of December. But he was rebooked on new charges Thursday in connection with the November shooting, Las Vegas police announced Friday.
A woman found dead from gunshot wounds in her northeast valley residence early Wednesday morning has been identified by the Clark County coroner.
The suspect in Saturday’s deadly shooting at an east Las Vegas Valley bar may have killed a man for sitting next to his date, according to a Metropolitan Police Department report.
A Las Vegas man has been charged with taking part in the 2006 murder of the leader of an organization with criminal ties in San Francisco’s Chinatown.
Joel Nuno-Cruz, 24, who is wanted in connection with a homicide at the OK Corral bar as well as a string of robberies, is in custody Thursday night, police said.
Authorities arrested a 37-year-old man Wednesday in connection with the fatal shooting that occurred in a Las Vegas apartment.
The Metropolitan Police Department is investigating the death of a woman whose body was found early Wednesday morning near Pecos and Alexander roads.
Police are asking for the public’s assistance in identifying three or four people tied to the shooting death.
A Las Vegas man was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison Wednesday for the stabbing death of his girlfriend.
Jeremiah Merriweather, who has confessed to the Nov. 2010 killing of 32-year-old Joe Stutzman, testified as a key prosecution witness Wednesday in Brandy Stutzman’s death penalty trial. Should a jury find her guilty and decide on capital punishment, Stutzman would be the only woman on death row in Nevada.
