A Las Vegas man was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison Wednesday for the stabbing death of his girlfriend.
Homicides
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.
Tonee Anita Walker, 36, was visiting a friend at an apartment complex when she got into an argument with a man suspected of killing her, police say.
Prosecutors intend to seek the death penalty against a 23-year-old man charged in the beating death of his young daughter.
Less than 24 hours after a woman was shot dead in a friend’s southeast valley apartment, her 41-year-old murder suspect was taken into custody in California.
Las Vegas police have arrested one of two suspects in a double homicide that occurred last week near the downtown area.
The naked man who was fatally shot by a Las Vegas police officer at a Jean resort had stabbed himself several times before the officer arrived at the scene, a Metropolitan Police Department official said Tuesday.
A woman found dead in her northeast valley apartment last week has been identified.
A Henderson jewelry store employee who was accidentally killed by a security guard during an attempted robbery has been identified by the Clark County coroner.
A man wanted since the start of the year for brazenly robbing several east valley businesses at gunpoint is the same man wanted for killing a man and injuring a waitress Saturday at an east valley bar, Las Vegas police said Monday.
The Clark County coroner’s office identified the man found dead Wednesday night in an apartment near downtown as Myron Magnum, a 33-year-old North Las Vegas resident. A woman also found dead there has not yet been identified.
A man wanted in connection with an April homicide was arrested Sunday, according to Clark County Detention Center records.
The woman killed in a double homicide Wednesday night near downtown Las Vegas has been identified.
The Clark County coroner has identified the man who was fatally shot in the doorway of an east valley bar Saturday morning as Alberto Sanchez-Delatorre, 24, of Las Vegas.
Las Vegas police are investigating a homicide at a southeast valley apartment complex.
