A Las Vegas man should be executed for shooting and killing 15-year-old Alexus Postorino inside her home, a jury decided Thursday.
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A jury on Wednesday convicted Norman Belcher of first-degree murder in the December 2010 shooting death of 15-year-old Alexus Postorino because of a dispute with her father over $450.
Testimony wrapped up Tuesday afternoon in the death penalty trial of a 41-year-old Las Vegas man accused of killing a 15-year-old girl and injuring another man during a shooting and drug-related robbery.
A Clark County District Court judge ruled Friday that Erich Nowsch’s guilty plea will stand.
The 13-year-old fatally shot in a west valley smoke shop Friday night was at least 40 feet away from the clerk and running out of the store as he was shot, a police report said.
Talking to police moments after learning his 15-year-old daughter Alexus was fatally shot, William Postorino didn’t want to believe that a man he had considered a friend for more than 30 years could be the killer.
Authorities linked 23-year-old Shane Valentine to a shooting incident at a woman’s home after finding her son and his girlfriend dead inside a southwest valley apartment less than a month later.
Prosecutors have dismissed a murder charge against a Las Vegas man who was accused in the fatal shooting of a 28-year-old woman in the central valley last month.
A 24-year-old man was indicted this week in a fatal shooting just east of the Strip.
Ayden McKinnon, who spent his 15th and 16th birthday in the Clark County Detention Center, could spend many more in prison. Should a judge decide in January that McKinnon should serve time behind bars, she could order upward of 46 years.
Las Vegas police are investigating a downtown shooting Sunday night that resulted in a woman being taken to the University Medical Center trauma unit.
Moments after jurors convicted a 47-year-old man of first-degree murder in his third trial on Tuesday, a judge indicated that the case would have to be presented to yet another jury.
A judge on Monday denied bail for Omar Jamal Talley, accused of killing two women near the Strip, as prosecutors said they were considering whether to pursue capital punishment.
The Clark County coroner’s office has ruled the Jan. 30 shooting death of Denise Gray, 40, an accident.
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