The new DUI Strike Team is made up of four Metro officers and three troopers who work Wednesday through Saturday nights, solely arresting suspected impaired drivers.
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The calls of “shots fired” over radios Thursday night were just part of a drill, but the officers who heard them treated the exercise as a life-and-death matter.
The Mohlers and Cunningham gathered Thursday at Metropolitan Police Department headquarters to share a simple reminder that could mean the difference between life and death: Lock up your guns.
Less than an hour after the first strike team entered Stephen Paddock’s suite at Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas police officers far from the scene were already sharing cellphone photos of the dead gunman.
Technology used in a pilot program targeting gun violence in the Las Vegas Valley cut police response times, helped with evidence collection and alerted police of more shootings, officials said Wednesday.
Among the thousands of Californians facing tragedy again Friday were survivors of both the shooting at Borderline Bar and Grille and the Route 91 Harvest country music festival attack in Las Vegas. They included Brendan Kelly and Molly Maurer.
The longtime poet’s voice soared and dove as he performed his piece. The poet, a golden badge and a pair of captain’s bars pinned to his tan uniform, spoke of good and evil, of hatred and terror.
A newly released body camera video shows hundreds of survivors breaking into applause as Las Vegas police enter the Tropicana Las Vegas after the mass shooting on the Strip.
The agency partnered with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, the U.S. Attorney’s Office and Clear Channel Outdoor for the yearlong campaign after a similar effort on human trafficking led to “dozens of new leads and cases.”
Dr. Deborah Kuhls, who’s serving on a panel at UNLV on Friday to discuss her experiences from the night of Oct. 1, 2017, has been a trauma surgeon at UMC for more than 18 years.
Las Vegas police released body camera footage Wednesday that for the first time takes viewers inside a Mandalay Bay security control room shortly after the Route 91 Harvest festival attack.
The unthinkable has already happened. Las Vegas police are working to prevent it from happening again.
The Mandalay Bay digital sign went dark for about four minutes around 10 p.m. on October 1, 2018 and came back to display “#VegasStronger” for at least 30 minutes. Some Las Vegas shooting survivors expected more, however.
Las Vegas came together on Oct. 1 to mark the anniversary of a mass shooting that took 58 lives one year ago.
Officials with the city of Las Vegas read the names of the 58 concertgoers killed in the Route 91 Harvest festival attack last year.
