Las Vegas police say a man who shot and killed another man last month did so during a ruse in which he posed as a Facebook user trying to sell the victim a car.
Shootings
“You are robbing and killing the very citizens that you swore and fought to protect,” the judge told Angell Fernandez at his sentencing hearing.
Prosecutors plan to seek capital punishment for two men accused of committing a string of armed robberies that left two people dead on New Year’s Eve.
Las Vegas police identified two of three suspects wanted in a fatal shooting during a targeted robbery in a southwest valley home in March.
Jurors began discussing potential sentences Friday for the man they convicted in the shooting death and robbery of a Las Vegas-area rapper.
Officers responded to reports of multiple gunshots inside a home on the 6400 block of Bright Nimbus Avenue and found a woman dead from gunshot sounds.
“There is no question that these two defendants are a danger to the community,” Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Harmony Letizia said.
The first fact-finding review since the nation was thrust into protest over police brutality in May was held on Monday. The process is meant to provide transparency in fatal police shootings.
One of three people shot during a robbery Wednesday afternoon in North Las Vegas has died, police said.
A man killed Wednesday night in the central Las Vegas Valley appeared to have been shot during a drug deal that turned into a robbery, police said Thursday afternoon.
Las Vegas police have identified the man shot and killed by officers after he pointed a shotgun toward them during an attempted carjacking on Tuesday.
The federal trial, which began in July, took a weeklong break in early February following four days of closing arguments from attorneys on both sides of the case.
Testimony began Tuesday in the death penalty trial of a man accused of killing a Lee’s Discount Liquor clerk during a robbery.
Police say four people who planned a drug robbery that left a man dead made off with two cellphones and a television in the crime but missed $10,000 worth of oxycodone pills.
Angell Cordero Fernandez of Las Vegas emerged as a suspect when investigators began looking into unexpected pizza deliveries in the week before the shooting.