Carl Arnold, who represented Duane “Keffe D” Davis during the April trial, informed Judge Krall that Davis changed lawyers in his separate murder case two days earlier.
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After he made his guilty plea, his family and the victim’s approached each other outside the courtroom and shared tearful embraces.
Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against Manuel Ruiz, who is accused of killing two people in front of the Fountains of Bellagio over a social media feud.
Attorneys for a man accused of the 1996 murder of hip hop legend Tupac Shakur filed a petition with the Nevada Supreme Court seeking to overturn a lower court’s denial to dismiss the case.
Dreyveon Griley-Burnside, 25, and Kaveon Phillips, 22, pleaded guilty in May, according to court documents.
Anabel Sarabia and Alberto Sarabia described how their three daughters had been gathered around the dining table before gunfire shattered their evening.
Shortly after the shooter was released, he and his twin brother—both 16 —began posting threatening messages and displaying weapons on Instagram, according to the slain teen’s father.
The June 8 shooting was livestreamed, and police have said it stemmed from a social media feud. One of the victims and the suspect were both YouTubers.
A woman withdrew her guilty plea Thursday after protesting her innocence in the killing of her on-again, off-again boyfriend, whose body was found decapitated.
Police said Spencer McDonald lived with the bodies for days. The victims were his grandmother, her boyfriend and a maintenance man.
Robert Salone was upset when he came home and found his neighbor’s car blocking his driveway, police have said.
Ricky Lee Trader was arrested last year in Reno after being released from prison, where he had served time for another murder.
Prosecutors argued that the guard “abused her authority” while trying to diffuse a physical altercation outside a northwest valley convenience store that left a 56-year-old man dead.
She was so young that she could not be certified for prosecution as an adult, according to attorneys.
One of the suspects in a fatal shooting at a park in Pahrump appeared in a Las Vegas courtroom Thursday and is expected to be extradited to Nye County.
A Pahrump judge ordered an 18-year-old man held without bail Wednesday in connection with a fatal shooting at Ian Deutch Memorial Park.
After Ronald Mortensen’s 1997 murder conviction was reversed by a federal judge, he pleaded guilty to lesser charges last week.