The man involved in a road rage shooting Friday night has been taken into custody without incident.
Shootings
The 13-year-old boy who was killed Friday at a west valley smoke shop was shot multiple times in the back and at least once in the head, the boy’s father said Wednesday. That information could help explain why investigators decided Monday to pursue a murder charge against the smoke shop clerk accused of firing the fatal shots.
“Everybody’s concerned,” said Metro homicide Lt. Dan McGrath while on the scene of Fabriccio Patti’s shooting Friday. “And it should be not just the police’s concern — it’s the whole community’s concern, that we have a rise in violence, specifically gun violence.”
A teen was fatally shot by a smoke shop employee Friday night after he and two other youths entered the southwest valley store wearing masks, likely intending to rob the business, police said.
The man, who was shot once in the back, was taken to University Medical Center, where he underwent surgery for serious but not life-threatening injuries, Metro said.
Nearly 300 people gathered for a candlelight vigil earlier this week for a man who was shot and killed near the Caesars Palace employee parking garage Friday night.
A Las Vegas man facing the death penalty in the slaying of a 75-year-old woman should not be allowed to cover his neo-Nazi tattoos with makeup when he goes to trial, a judge ruled Thursday.
A man shooting a gun from a car on southbound Interstate 15 struck two people in another car Saturday morning, injuring a man and killing a woman, Las Vegas police said.
A woman is dead and a 45-year-old man is in custody after barricading himself in the backyard of his Summerlin home for hours Tuesday afternoon after a fatal shooting.
The man suspected of shooting a person Sunday morning inside a southwest valley Starbucks earlier had his payment card declined at the coffee shop’s drive-thru window, Las Vegas police said.
Las Vegas police arrested a suspect late Monday night in connection with a shooting earlier in the day at McCarran International Airport.
A fluke and a little good fortune helped a homicide suspect escape North Las Vegas police custody Friday, officials explained Wednesday, the day after the suspect was recaptured.
The Clark County coroner’s office has identified a 19-year-old who died after an accidental shooting in the central valley Thursday night.
Las Vegas police officers involved in the New Year’s Eve shooting of an unarmed man did not attempt to use non-lethal force to subdue him before they opened fire, according to a public fact-finding review held Monday.
The robbery trial of Bayzle Morgan, whose neo-Nazi tattoos were ordered concealed in front of jurors, was suspended Wednesday after prosecutors said they wanted the Nevada Supreme Court to clarify the wording for a verdict form.