The fatal shooting of a customer at a southwest valley Starbucks on Sunday appeared to be a random act and the suspect did not know his victim, police said Tuesday.
Homicides
A Henderson man accused of stabbing his wife to death while their three young children were home had previously been arrested for attempted murder and convicted of battery with a deadly weapon, records show.
In a statement, Metropolitan Police Department said that at 12:25 p.m. Tuesday, it received a report that a stabbed person had been dropped off at MountainView Hospital without explanation.
The man shot to death in a parking lot Sunday morning has been identified by the Clark County coroner’s office.
The Clark County coroner’s office has identified the woman stabbed to death in Henderson on Saturday morning as 30-year-old Amanda Kaplan.
“As long as he has the option of getting parole, I’ll be here fighting it,” Michelle Perkins said.
Police officers reached out to residents of two Las Vegas neighborhoods Saturday — hoping for leads to crack a year-old unsolved murder case in one and to quell fears about recent violence in the other. At both, they strived to strengthen community ties and develop lines of communication between police and residents.
Police have arrested a man in connection with an early Saturday morning homicide of a woman inside a Henderson home.
A 38-year-old man was ordered to spend the rest of his life behind bars without the possibility of parole on Tuesday for his role in the slaying of a Nellis airman gunned down in the garage of his home.
A husband and wife were found dead in their blood-splattered apartment Tuesday, and police said a man the couple tried to help could be to blame.
The man shot and killed in North Las Vegas early Sunday morning has been identified by the Clark County coroner as Oscar Barragan, 19.
A man died early Sunday morning after a shooting in North Las Vegas, police spokesman Alexander Perez said.
After a jury ordered him to serve 20 years to life in prison for first-degree murder in the slaying of Robin Lesley Jenkins, marshals escorted David Frostick to a holding cell inside the Regional Justice Center. He turned toward three people in the gallery, smiled and flashed a peace sign with his right hand.
A 34-year-old woman whose body was found buried in a remote area in northeast Nevada had been reported missing by her boyfriend more than three weeks ago.
A Las Vegas man has been arrested in the attempted murder of his girlfriend Sunday morning in the central valley.