Las Vegas police investigating fatal shooting in central valley as suicide
Las Vegas police are investigating a shooting Saturday morning that left one man dead as a suicide.
At 10:15 a.m., the Metropolitan Police Department received reports of the shooting near South Torrey Pines Drive and Linda Lane, just south of West Flamingo Road. Arriving patrol officers found a man inside a vehicle suffering from at least one gunshot wound to the head, homicide Lt. Dan McGrath said.
Evidence at the scene initially prompted a response from Metro’s homicide unit, but Lt. Trish Cervantes confirmed just before noon that the man’s death would be investigated as a suicide.
The man was pronounced dead on the scene, Cervantes said.
The Clark County coroner’s office will determine the man’s cause and manner of death.
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