Las Vegas police are investigating a fatal shooting that happened Wednesday night just north of downtown Las Vegas. The shooting is believed to be drug-related.
Shootings
Police arrested Michael Gardenhire, 49, on a murder charge after his adult son was found dead in an apartment in the southwest valley.
A fight over a child turned into what police characterized as a random homicide in southwest Las Vegas late Tuesday night.
Las Vegas police said a 50-year-old man shot and killed his son late Tuesday at a southwest valley apartment complex.
A woman arrested after a homicide near downtown Las Vegas on Friday may have tried to clean up blood from the shooting before officers arrived, a police arrest report said.
Porchay Banks, 24, is being held at the Clark County Detention Center and faces one count of accessory to murder in connection with a Friday afternoon shooting that left a man dead at an apartment complex on the 2000 block of Sunrise Avenue.
The man, described as a Hispanic male in his 30s, was shot just after 1 p.m. in a Sunrise Avenue apartment, near Fremont Street and Eastern Avenue, the Metropolitan Police Department said.
Kevin Thomas, 50, was found dead on the scene after he was shot about 7 p.m. at 5101 E. Twain Ave., near Nellis Boulevard, the Metropolitan Police Department said.
The man who escaped North Las Vegas police custody in September, and was recaptured four days later, has now been linked to two additional August homicides, ballistics testing shows.
The Clark County coroner’s office has identified the man who was fatally shot Sunday in the northeast valley.
The shooting happened about 7 p.m. at 5101 E. Twain Ave., near Nellis Boulevard.
The woman arrested Monday in connection with the death of her boyfriend hid a handgun under a car seat before he was shot, according to her arrest report.
Prosecutors have dismissed a murder charge against a Las Vegas man who was accused in the fatal shooting of a 28-year-old woman in the central valley last month.
A 24-year-old man was indicted this week in a fatal shooting just east of the Strip.
Investigation led to two suspects, who face murder and other charges in the slaying of Thomas Frank Jones V.
