A look at the number of homicides in Clark County in 2023. Among the trends, a rise in domestic violence-related murders in Las Vegas.
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The fatal shooting of a police officer Thursday was the third officer-involved shooting in Clark County this week.
A former North Las Vegas firefighter charged with murder in his wife’s overdose death told officers he was worried that the city would learn of the investigation into his spouse’s demise, body camera footage in the case shows.
If the former North Las Vegas firefighter had rushed his wife to a nearby hospital instead of the faraway fire station, she could have survived, her parents said.
Christopher Candito, 33, was arrested Wednesday and booked at the Henderson Detention Center on a second-degree murder charge in the death of Tiffany Slatsky, 25, from February 2020.
Clark County saw its most drastic drop in homicide investigations in at least a decade last year, down 33 percent from the previous year.
Last year was the deadliest on record for two Clark County suburbs, while Las Vegas police saw a drop in homicides for the first time since 2012.