Civil liberties group questions whether school district police officer used excessive force and officials followed procedures on bullying laid out in state law.
Shootings
A jury on Wednesday convicted Norman Belcher of first-degree murder in the December 2010 shooting death of 15-year-old Alexus Postorino because of a dispute with her father over $450.
An owner of the house near where a man and police exchanged gunfire Tuesday is in custody.
A man is uninjured and in custody after holding a neighbor hostage and at rifle-point in a south valley home for more than five hours early Tuesday following a shootout with Metropolitan Police Department officers.
Testimony wrapped up Tuesday afternoon in the death penalty trial of a 41-year-old Las Vegas man accused of killing a 15-year-old girl and injuring another man during a shooting and drug-related robbery.
Those shot were taken to University Medical Center’s trauma unit with gunshot wounds that were not life-threatening.
A gunshot wound to the head caused the death of a man whose body was found in a desert area Tuesday morning, according to the Clark County coroner, who ruled the death a homicide.
David Houston says 14-year-old had pulled knives to protect himself from “a beat-down” planned by his classmates when he was shot by a police officer at Hug High School.
A Clark County District Court judge ruled Friday that Erich Nowsch’s guilty plea will stand.
The 13-year-old fatally shot in a west valley smoke shop Friday night was at least 40 feet away from the clerk and running out of the store as he was shot, a police report said.
Jean Joseph, 29, faces charges of attempted murder with a deadly weapon, kidnapping with a deadly weapon, child abuse with a deadly weapon and possession of a gun by a prohibited person.
The 13-year-old boy who was killed Friday at a west valley smoke shop was shot multiple times in the back and at least once in the head, the boy’s father said Wednesday. That information could help explain why investigators decided Monday to pursue a murder charge against the smoke shop clerk accused of firing the fatal shots.
Las Vegas police have taken a suspect into custody after a barricade situation at the Loft 5 residential complex near Las Vegas Boulevard South Wednesday morning.
Talking to police moments after learning his 15-year-old daughter Alexus was fatally shot, William Postorino didn’t want to believe that a man he had considered a friend for more than 30 years could be the killer.
The father of the 13-year-old boy who was fatally shot Friday at a west valley smoke shop said Tuesday he forgives the clerk who is now behind bars in connection with his son’s death.
