The man shot and killed by a Las Vegas police officer earlier this week was shot after calling 911 to report that his home was being broken into, police said.
Shootings
An officer with the Metropolitan Police Department shot and killed a man in the southeast Las Vegas Valley.
A taxi’s dashcam helped police identify a suspect in the shooting death of a man whose body was found inside a crashed car last month.
The shooting victim was found in front of an apartment in the 4000 block of Adabella Avenue.
Robert Brown was sentenced to death this month for the 2012 killing of his girlfriend — the first time in more than five years a Nevada jury has sentenced someone to die.
Damarion Bell, 18, and Jasahn Lovette, 23, face murder charges in connection with the death of Darin Algee.
Police said Lindsay Harris, 39, aimed an “unknown object” at officers during a standoff in a west Las Vegas neighborhood.
A person was taken to University Medical Center with injuries that were not life-threatening, the Metropolitan Police Department said.
The shooting took place shortly after 9 p.m. near North Hualapai Way and Elkhorn Road.
Andy Scoggins is now grieving the loss of his only child and reckoning with a damaged relationship that he had hoped to eventually mend.
After running from officers, the woman barricaded herself in a shed in the backyard of a home and was eventually taken into custody, police said.
The incident occurred just before 3 a.m. in the 3700 block of Paradise Road near Sands Avenue, according to a Metropolitan Police Department news release.
Las Vegas police revealed new details in a briefing about a stolen vehicle chase that ended in a shooting by a police officer.
The police said they responded to “reports of a disruptive house party” at a home in the 3800 block of Idlewood Avenue.
A 15-year-old boy has been arrested in connection with the shooting death of a woman Saturday night in the east Las Vegas Valley.
