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.
John Dabritz, 66, faces the possibility of a death sentence if convicted in the killing of Sgt. Ben Jenkins, who was shot multiple times March 27.
“The reality is that there are people that are going to try and take advantage of the crisis,” said Aaron Rouse, special agent in charge of the Las Vegas field office.
“The main resource we really need right now is the human kind — volunteers,” said Daniele Staple, executive director of the Rape Crisis Center.
The new charges add to a list of growing allegations against the suspect that have surfaced since the March 27 shooting of Sgt. Ben Jenkins.
During the first week of Nevada’s initial emergence from the coronavirus-triggered shutdown, the state’s largest charity devoted to ending domestic violence experienced an explosion of calls to its hotline.
At least two of the three suspects have known each other since 2014 when they were arrested by Las Vegas police.
Authorities suspect that John Dabritz committed crimes involving an explosive device in Nye County just prior to the fatal shooting of a Nevada Highway Patrol sergeant.
A motive in the March 27 shooting of a Nevada Highway Patrol trooper was revealed for the first time in public court documents obtained Thursday by the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
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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.