
Las Vegas homicide Sgt. Ken Hefner looks over the body of a security guard shot to death Thursday outside the Chong Hing jewelry store, 4205 Spring Mountain Road. Photo by Jeff Scheid.
Two robbers ambush, kill guard at mall
Las Vegas police have found a potential connection between a slaying and robbery at a jewelry store Thursday and a similar robbery in Northern California earlier this summer.
Homicide Lt. Wayne Petersen said the Chong Hing jewelry store, 4205 Spring Mountain Road, where a security guard was slain Thursday, is owned by the same company that owns a Milpitas, Calif., jewelry store that was robbed in July.
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Friday, September 17, 1999
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