Attempted robbery; shots fired; break-ins and $11,000 worth of computer equipment stolen: These crimes all recently struck the laid-back retirement community of Sun City Summerlin within a number of days.
Robberies
Las Vegas police are asking for the public’s help to find a man who robbed a retail store near the downtown area.
A line of people, about 20 deep, extended from the open doors of the Galleria A meeting room into the hallway of the Luxor.
“Matthew did what I would expect him to do,” said the mother of the man killed Monday during an armed robbery at a Lee’s Discount Liquor in the southwest valley, who may have saved his pregnant coworker with his silence. “I’m very proud and honored that my son protected her and her son.”
Las Vegas police need the public’s help in locating a robbery suspect.
Matthew Christensen, 24, was killed after three black men in their 20s caught on tape demanded he open a safe. Christensen didn’t have access to it, but his pregnant manager in another part of the store, Jamie Henderson, did. And he kept quiet.
A man was shot at after he was robbed while leaving a residence in the southeast valley Wednesday morning, Las Vegas police said.
A security guard at Fashion Show mall had a gun pointed at him Tuesday night when he tried to stop a woman who’d stolen about $3,000 in merchandise.
Instead of trying to stop fraud at Club Paradise, “the crime actually escalated after the encounter between our squad and their management team,” detective Aaron Fink, a detective with the Las Vegas Police criminal intelligence unit, told a Clark County grand jury.
Las Vegas police are seeking the public’s help to find a man and woman in connection with a Monday morning robbery.
Las Vegas police are seeking help in identifying the man who robbed a Brinks armored truck in March.
Las Vegas police are seeking help identifying a suspect in a March robbery.
Four men have been arrested in connection with a series of robberies throughout the Las Vegas Valley, police said.
A man was shot during an attempted robbery Wednesday morning in central Las Vegas, police said.
A man robbed a fast-food restaurant early Wednesday morning armed with a sword, Las Vegas police said.
