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.
Courts
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.
Police have said the suspect in the shooting that killed two people on the Las Vegas Strip stemmed from a social media feud, since the suspect and a victim were both YouTubers.
A former attorney for the convicted murderer said he would have asked for a mistrial had he known of the note when it was sent to the judge.
Ronald Mortensen, who has been incarcerated for nearly 30 years, serving a life without parole sentence for the 1996 off-duty, drive-by shooting of Daniel Mendoza, 21, admitted to two felony counts.
Prosecutors have said Duane “Keffe D” Davis orchestrated a plan to pay back the hip hop star and Death Row Records CEO Marion “Suge” Knight.
Manuel Ruiz has been accused in the shooting in front of the Bellagio that claimed the lives of Rodney Finley and Tanisha Finley.
District Attorney Steve Wolfson said prosecutors will consider seeking the death penalty against the suspect in a shooting that killed two in front of the Bellagio.
After the shooting, police said he fled in a high-speed chase, stealing three cars and hitting two pedestrians as he tried to escape.