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The 13-year-old boy who was killed Friday at a west valley smoke shop was shot multiple times in the back and at least once in the head, the boy’s father said Wednesday. That information could help explain why investigators decided Monday to pursue a murder charge against the smoke shop clerk accused of firing the fatal shots.
“Everybody’s concerned,” said Metro homicide Lt. Dan McGrath while on the scene of Fabriccio Patti’s shooting Friday. “And it should be not just the police’s concern — it’s the whole community’s concern, that we have a rise in violence, specifically gun violence.”
A teen was fatally shot by a smoke shop employee Friday night after he and two other youths entered the southwest valley store wearing masks, likely intending to rob the business, police said.
A Las Vegas man was arrested Sunday afternoon in suspicion of attempted murder, according to a Metro police report.
A Las Vegas woman arrested in connection with the death of her 2-year-old daughter last month had been investigated by Child Protective Services at least four times prior, an arrest report obtained Monday by the Las Vegas Review-Journal shows.
Nearly 300 people gathered for a candlelight vigil earlier this week for a man who was shot and killed near the Caesars Palace employee parking garage Friday night.
A man shot and killed Saturday morning in Las Vegas has been identified.
A Las Vegas man facing the death penalty in the slaying of a 75-year-old woman should not be allowed to cover his neo-Nazi tattoos with makeup when he goes to trial, a judge ruled Thursday.
A woman is dead and a 45-year-old man is in custody after barricading himself in the backyard of his Summerlin home for hours Tuesday afternoon after a fatal shooting.
Police have arrested a man in connection with an early Saturday morning homicide of a woman inside a Henderson home.
A fluke and a little good fortune helped a homicide suspect escape North Las Vegas police custody Friday, officials explained Wednesday, the day after the suspect was recaptured.
Fifteen-year-old Marcos Vicente Arenas cherished his iPad, and carried it just about everywhere he went, listening to his favorite music through tethered earbuds. The Nevada Supreme Court will not stop cameras with a television show about the Clark County district attorney’s office from filming a murder trial this week.
A grand jury indicted a man accused of a triple murder and robbery on Wednesday.
Defense lawyers who want to block Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson’s television show “Las Vegas Law” from filming a murder trial took their argument to the Nevada Supreme Court on Monday.
A judge serving his last few months on the bench ejected relatives of murder victims from his courtroom Tuesday and threatened to have a Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter arrested during a routine hearing.
