Six hours after the fact, Las Vegas homicide detectives worked to reconstruct the scene of a shooting early Jan. 7 that left one man dead in the southeast valley. (Rio Lacanlale/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Police are investigating a Thursday morning crash involving a pedestrian and a vehicle in the east valley. The crash occurred around 5:30 a.m. and forced the closure of the intersection at Boulder Highway and Tropicana Avenue. Police said the intersection would be closed for “quite some time.”
An attempted robbery Tuesday night turned deadly when two men exchanged gunfire at The Suites on Boulder Highway near Flamingo Road. Police said one man broke into an apartment and tried to rob a man. The two men pulled out guns and shot each other. One man was killed and the other was taken to a hospital in critical condition. Metro detectives are still investigating.
With six weeks remaining in 2017, Clark County has already logged its deadliest year on record for pedestrians. So far, 62 walkers were fatally struck as of Thursday, eclipsing the previous all-time high of 60 killed in 2015. Between 2013 and 2016, 24 people were fatally struck by vehicles along Boulder Highway, Southern Nevada’s deadliest stretch of roadway. Andrew Bennett, traffic safety office spokesman