The 19-year-old shot and killed by a west Las Vegas Valley resident Saturday had burglarized a nearby home just prior to the shooting, Las Vegas police said Monday. Police added that the man killedhad also been in a confrontation with the shooter and had stolen the shooter’s cell phone just before shots rang out, shedding light on why the shooter is not currently facing charges.
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A Las Vegas man stabbed to death Saturday near a walking trail in the northeast valley has been identified by the Clark County coroner’s office.
The shooting occurred Saturday evening after the resident confronted the man for casing a neighbor’s house near West Desert Inn Road and Remuda Trail, the Metropolitan Police Department said.
Police took 54-year-old Arnold Whitehead into custody on the 5200 block of Stewart Avenue. He was arrested in connection with the stabbing death of another man near a walking trail on the 300 block of North Nellis Boulevard.
In recordings of Scott Dozier’s recent phone calls, made public this month through court exhibits, he tells friends and family he is tired of life, and he envisions his path to the execution chamber.
Homicide detectives are investigating the stabbing death of a man Saturday evening in the northeast valley.
Brandy Stutzman helped ditch the killer’s bloody clothes, sent text messages to her husband, knowing he was dead, then feigned surprise when she found his body in his northern valley home, prosecutors said during closing arguments Friday.
Terrell Stewart, 31, was taken into custody and booked Thursday into the Clark County Detention Center on several charges, including two counts of attempted murder.
A woman found dead from gunshot wounds in her northeast valley residence early Wednesday morning has been identified by the Clark County coroner.
The suspect in Saturday’s deadly shooting at an east Las Vegas Valley bar may have killed a man for sitting next to his date, according to a Metropolitan Police Department report.
Joel Nuno-Cruz, 24, who is wanted in connection with a homicide at the OK Corral bar as well as a string of robberies, is in custody Thursday night, police said.
Authorities arrested a 37-year-old man Wednesday in connection with the fatal shooting that occurred in a Las Vegas apartment.
The Metropolitan Police Department is investigating the death of a woman whose body was found early Wednesday morning near Pecos and Alexander roads.
Police are asking for the public’s assistance in identifying three or four people tied to the shooting death.
Jeremiah Merriweather, who has confessed to the Nov. 2010 killing of 32-year-old Joe Stutzman, testified as a key prosecution witness Wednesday in Brandy Stutzman’s death penalty trial. Should a jury find her guilty and decide on capital punishment, Stutzman would be the only woman on death row in Nevada.