Two Nevada Highway Patrol troopers were struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver Thursday on northbound Interstate 15 near D Street. The driver was later arrested.
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Clark County is asking for the public’s help as three other sets of skeletal remains found at Lake Mead in 2022 have since been identified.
After the successful sex trafficking crackdown last week, Las Vegas police said plans to combat sex trafficking during the Super Bowl will be announced soon.
Metropolitan Police Department Assistant Sheriff Sasha Larkin said officers showed “great humanity and restraint” during the fatal shooting in the southeast valley at a Tuesday news conference.
The killing happened in the 3800 block of East Charleston Boulevard, Metro said.
It’s the seventh police shooting in Metro’s jurisdiction of 2023, police said.
Robert Hoy, who was fatally shot Tuesday afternoon, was a computer system engineer that had done contract work with the CIA, according to his wife.
Robert Hoy moved to Las Vegas to care for his daughter with autism, according to Bruce Moore, his longtime friend.
Fahid Amin, 35, has been charged with DUI and reckless driving in connection to a fatal crash east of Summerlin on Nov. 12.
Johnelle Johnson, 46, appeared in court Wednesday after a judge had given a prosecutor time to review her blood test results.
The collision at West Flamingo Road and South Buffalo Drive occurred at 10:40 p.m.
Four teens arrested in connection with the fatal beating of a Rancho High student have been formally charged with second-degree murder. Also, about 100 people remembered the teen during a vigil.
Major Sanford, 44, has been charged with open murder in connection with the death of 46-year-old Shannon Awa on Nov. 9.
A vigil organized by a controversial group that bills itself as a parents’ rights organization will honor a high school student who police say was fatally beaten.
The officer is assigned to the West Community Policing Division of the Northwest Area Command.