Mario Espinoza, 34, was taken into custody without incident a short distance from the crime scene, the Metropolitan Police Department said.
Homicides
The spike in violent crimes affecting the valley has caught the attention of FBI Director James B. Comey.
The man police believe killed two people before officers shot him multiple times in a March incident that also resulted in the death of police K-9 Nicky has died.
Las Vegas police named Michael Garcia, 54, a person of interest in the stabbing death of a woman found dead inside a southeast valley home Friday afternoon.
Police arrested two men Friday in connection with an April homicide.
The badly decomposed body of a man found in the trunk of a car in a south valley neighborhood Wednesday has been identified by the Clark County coroner.
A 30-year-old man accused of killing two women near the Strip has been indicted on murder and other felony charges, prosecutors said Thursday.
The murder case against three men accused of storming into a southwest valley Lee’s Discount Liquor armed with handguns and killing a clerk is expected to be presented to a grand jury, prosecutors said Tuesday.
Erich Nowsch, the man accused of gunning down a 44-year-old mother of four in front of her Las Vegas home, may get an appointed lawyer as he tries to back out of a guilty plea.
Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Melanie Tobiasson spoke for the first time Monday about her decision that kept a man free two days before he fatally shot his ex-girlfriend.
A man charged in an October 2013 double killing in Las Vegas pleaded not guilty Monday.
The Clark County coroner’s office has ruled the November death of a toddler a homicide.
Two days before a woman was fatally shot in front of her children outside a North Las Vegas day care center, a judge denied a request to revoke her ex-boyfriend’s bail in a domestic violence case.
Three men appeared in Las Vegas court Friday to face charges in connection with the fatal shooting of a southwest valley Lee’s Discount Liquor cashier.
A mother and father were fatally shot in front of their two young children Thursday morning near the entrance of a North Las Vegas day care center, and both children were injured. Police said the incident may have been a murder-suicide.