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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.
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 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.
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.
The robbery trial of Bayzle Morgan, whose neo-Nazi tattoos were ordered concealed in front of jurors, was suspended Wednesday after prosecutors said they wanted the Nevada Supreme Court to clarify the wording for a verdict form.
None of Bayzle Morgan’s neo-Nazi head and neck tattoos was visible to jurors Thursday, as lawyers gave opening statements in his robbery trial.
Three children were shot dead by their father inside a bedroom within the family’s apartment sometime Wednesday. The father also killed the children’s mother — his wife — outside of a Walgreens at 6101 W. Lake Mead Boulevard before ultimately killing himself.
Women in Nevada are 65 percent more likely to be fatally shot by an intimate partner than women in other states, according to a new study.
A man wanted in connection to a February murder was killed early Saturday after he entered a central valley apartment armed and was shot by one of its residents, Las Vegas police confirmed Wednesday, and the case he was wanted in connection to has since been closed.
