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.
The Clark County coroner’s office has identified a man who was stabbed to death during a downtown Las Vegas fight on Sunday.
A young Jane Doe found dead in a desert area between Hoover Dam and Kingman in 2016 was recently identified using genetic genealogy technology, the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office announced.
The Clark County coroner’s office has identified the man who was shot and killed at an east Las Vegas mobile home park on Sunday.
A driver reported the man to police. It marked the second homicide that Las Vegas police investigated Sunday.
A motorcyclist was killed after a crash in central Las Vegas on Thursday morning.
Officers were called to an apartment on the 4800 block of East Tropicana Avenue around 8:36 a.m. Monday and found a man “who suffered from apparent trauma,” police said.
Cold case detectives often rely on DNA evidence, and advancements in technology are giving decades-old samples new promise. Sometimes, though, a match isn’t enough.
The woman was taken to a local hospital with what were later described as “nonlife-threatening injuries” after the Wednesday night shooting, police said.
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.
A person whom police suspect was involved in a shooting was arrested after a barricade in a south Las Vegas home, the Metropolitan Police Department said late Monday.
Gov. Steve Sisolak blasted a Nye County commissioner’s comments made last week against Nevada first lady Kathy Sisolak, calling them “vile” and “blatantly racist.”
Henderson police are seeking the public’s help as they work to identify a woman whose body was found in Lake Las Vegas in May.
The Clark County Fire Department battled a blaze at an apartment complex Sunday in northeast Las Vegas.
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