North Las Vegas police shot and killed a man who reportedly raised a firearm towards several officers on Saturday night, according to authorities.
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A male was injured in an apparent shooting in Henderson on Friday night.
Operation Summer Shield 2024, a multi-jurisdictional sex offender verification operation, took place June 3-7, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.
Las Vegas police say the suspects admit they were at the scene of the crime in the southeast valley, but they deny killing a man and a woman found dead there.
Bump stocks, which allow semi-automatic weapons to fire like machine guns, were used in mass shootings like the one that killed 60 people in Las Vegas.
Prosecutors showed jurors a photo of 4-year-old Jason Rimer during Wednesday’s opening statements in the trial of his parents, Stanley and Colleen Rimer, who are accused of second-degree murder and child abuse and neglect for leaving their disabled son in a Ford Excursion. Prosecutors argued the parents exhibited a pattern of neglect toward their eight children that was bound to lead to tragedy.
A jury on Wednesday found Wackenhut provided inadequate security at a Walmart parking lot on June 2, 2004, the night retired Air Force Maj. Michael Born was mortally wounded while changing his car’s headlight. Jurors said the security firm must pay more than $1 million in the wrongful death case in which the jury was convinced Wackenhut’s security was woefully inadequate. The same jury held the store was not liable for Born’s death.
Hopes of solving the mystery behind Cole Puffinburger’s 2008 disappearance were dashed Wednesday as prosecutors dropped all kidnapping and hostage-taking charges against two suspects, angering the boy’s father.
Holding a knife, Tory Manvilla raced back and forth through Winnie Ellis’ living room in a panic Tuesday night.
“He was yelling and screaming, ‘He’s got a gun, he’s after me,’ ” Ellis recalled Wednesday at her southeast valley home, site of the first fatal officer-involved shooting of 2011 for the Metropolitan Police Department.
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A fatal shooting at a Walmart parking lot is being investigated as a possible case of self-defense, according to the Henderson Police Department.
A suspect accused in a hit-and-run crash that killed a pedestrian told investigators that she had struck construction equipment, according to her arrest report.
The bodies were discovered June 5 in the 4900 block of South Droubay Drive, near Tropicana Avenue.
Henderson police and fire crews responded to reports of a shooting at about 1:30 p.m. in the 500 block of Marks Street.