Murder charges were dropped less than a week after a man was arrested in connection with the fatal stabbing of a 38-year-old after lawyers determined he acted in self-defense.
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Katelyn joined the Las Vegas Review-Journal’s metro desk in June after graduating from the University of Florida. She previously worked with the paper in the summer of 2017 as an intern on the business desk. Before graduating college she was the editor in chief of the Independent Florida Alligator. She was born and raised in Orlando, Florida.
A motorcyclist is dead after a crash involving a backhoe in the northwest Las Vegas Valley on Thursday afternoon, police said.
Two Henderson high school students were arrested after Las Vegas police and school officers found them with guns on campus Thursday.
The 19-year-old arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of an Arkansas man allegedly threatened two other people outside of a store in the southwest Las Vegas Valley, according to police documents.
Las Vegas police Tuesday asked for help finding a man suspected of an October armed robbery in the northwest valley.
A man was suffering from a serious gunshot wound Saturday night after a “domestic-related” shooting in the east valley, Las Vegas police said.
A Clark County School District police officer told investigators he stole two cameras from classrooms at a west Las Vegas Valley school in order to sell them “due to financial hardship,” arrest documents show.
No injuries were reported but a fire late Thursday night destroyed a vacant auto dealership on Fremont Street.
The calls of “shots fired” over radios Thursday night were just part of a drill, but the officers who heard them treated the exercise as a life-and-death matter.
A man covered in blood climbed into a stranger’s car Wednesday afternoon after being stabbed in the neck at a southeast Las Vegas Valley park, police said.
The victim told officers she was abducted, beaten and robbed by the four, who then phoned her boyfriend and attempted to extort money.
The Nye County Sheriff’s Office said two of its deputies and a sergeant were placed on administrative leave after police were twice called to a home where two people were forcibly held in filthy conditions , but they did not help the pair.
Police were called just before 5 p.m. to a call center on the 6800 block of Bermuda Road, near East Sunset Road and Paradise Road, to reports of two people who had been stabbed, said Metropolitan Police Department homicide Lt. Ray Spencer.
About a month after 11-year-old Angelina Erives was shot and killed, the final suspect sought in connection with the shooting was arrested in California, North Las Vegas police announced Wednesday.
A man was hospitalized in critical condition Tuesday night after he was stabbed in the chest and back in the northeast Las Vegas Valley, police said.
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