A woman arrested Tuesday after a fatal shooting in Henderson told police she was trying to pistol whip the victim when the gun discharged, killing him.
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Alexis Ford covers crime for the Review-Journal. Prior to joining the team in August 2019, she covered Congress for the Arizona Republic and worked on a national investigation into the climate of Hate in America for News21. Ford is a native of Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., and a graduate of Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism & Mass Communication.
Ford previously wrote for the Review-Journal under the name Alexis Egeland. Click here to see stories that appeared under that byline.
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Henderson police responded to an apparent drowning Monday near a marina at Lake Las Vegas. It marked the second apparent drowning at the lake this year.
A month and a half after Las Vegas officer Jason Swanger died of COVID-19, fellow officers escorted his 9-year-old son to his first day of fourth grade.
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