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Victim of fatal drive-by shooting in northeast Las Vegas is named

A man who was killed early Monday in a drive-by shooting in the northeast Las Vegas Valley has been identified by the Clark County coroner’s office.

Las Vegas resident Benicio Alejandro Quinones, 21, was gunned down in front of a home on the 4200 block of Calimesa Street, near Craig Road and Nellis Boulevard. Quinones died at an area hospital, police said.

Las Vegas police arrived at the scene after getting a notification from ShotSpotter, a technology Metro uses to locate gunshots. No one in the neighborhood called to report the multiple shots, police said.

Police have not made any arrests in the shooting.

Contact Blake Apgar at bapgar@reviewjournal.com or 702-387-5298. Follow @blakeapgar on Twitter.

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