A 16-year-old teen was arrested in connection with a deadly shooting that occurred last month in the south Las Vegas Valley.
Shootings
One person was detained after a man was shot and killed Tuesday afternoon within a large shopping complex in southwest Las Vegas, police said.
The FBI says Oswaldo Nathanahel Perez-Sanchez should be considered armed and dangerous.
Christopher McCary, 20, was found shot six times and stabbed three times inside an apartment on H Street.
“He was a young, loving son, brother, uncle and cousin that literally had his whole life ahead of him,” a GoFundMe page stated.
Officers were called to the area of Gold Crest Park, near Craig Road and Revere Street, at 5:25 p.m., North Las Vegas police spokesman Alex Cuevas said.
A jury began deliberations Thursday to determine if one of two men convicted of murder in a 2016 fatal shooting should be put to death.
In an interview with the Review-Journal, Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo says witnesses saw the drivers of two cars “flashing gang signs back and forth prior to the shooting.”
Prosecutors are purusing capital punishment for one of three people charged with carrying out a two-state shooting spree on Thanksgiving that left one man dead in Henderson and targeted nearly two dozen people.
Police were called to a Motel 6 on Dean Martin Drive just before 10 a.m. Monday.
The man who fatally shot a Las Vegas casino executive and wounded another during a company picnic last year was sentenced Thursday.
Henderson police fatally shot a woman after she reportedly stabbed her 7-year-old son multiple times on Monday.
A man shot by Las Vegas police Tuesday afternoon near downtown has died, according to the Clark County coroner’s office.
“Matthew did what I would expect him to do,” said the mother of the man killed Monday during an armed robbery at a Lee’s Discount Liquor in the southwest valley, who may have saved his pregnant coworker with his silence. “I’m very proud and honored that my son protected her and her son.”