New North Las Vegas Police Chief Pamela Ojeda said her department is going to combat a spate of gun violence in the city with community outreach and increased resources on the ground.
Shootings
Las Vegas police arrested four people, including three juveniles, in a deadly shooting this month in the eastern valley.
Body camera footage released Wednesday by the Metropolitan Police Department shows an officer alerting dispatch and other officers on Oct. 1 that his vehicle was stolen.
Just before 11:50 p.m. on June 9, an officer near Twain Avenue and Palos Verdes Street heard gunshots and found a man on the ground with multiple gunshot wounds, according to a Metropolitan Police Department release.
A man suspected of fatally shooting of Patricia Jones at a northwest valley apartment complex this month was an armed security guard, according to his Metropolitan Police Department arrest report.
The suspect in a string of robberies was shot on Thursday after he ignored commands and drove his vehicle toward officers who were trying to arrest him, body cam footage shown at a briefing Monday shows.
The release of Oct. 1 gunman Stephen Paddock’s assets will take at least a year to complete, an attorney said Thursday.
Police were called at 11 a.m. to the shooting in the 2800 block of Hermosa Street, near East Sahara Avenue and Maryland Parkway, a Metropolitan Police Department spokesman said.
The Clark County coroner’s office has identified a man who was shot to death Sunday night in the east Las Vegas Valley.
Shootings claimed the lives of three people, including a 2-year-old boy, and injured a 3-week-old infant during a violent 20-hour stretch in the Las Vegas Valley.
A 15-year-old boy shot his father to death and wounded his mother in a west Las Vegas home Thursday morning before being wounded when she got a gun and returned fire, according to Las Vegas police.
Las Vegas police officer Cordell Hendrex, another officer and security guards were among the first to respond to the upper floors of Mandalay Bay while a gunman opened fire on a country music festival below.
The man, in his late 40s, was fatally shot after a fistfight with another man, in his early 20s, just before 12:10 p.m. on the 1200 block of Melville Drive, near Valley View and Charleston boulevards, Metropolitan Police Department homicide Lt. Ray Spencer said.
Tommie C. Burnside Jr., 38, was fatally shot inside the room at Motel 6, 5058 Dean Martin Drive, after refusing to give up his money during the April 9 attempted robbery, according to a Metropolitan Police Department warrant.
Until the Oldham County Sheriff’s Office took suspected Las Vegas killer Anthony Wrobel into custody, deputies had no idea he was a wanted murder suspect, said Taner Blackburn, the deputy who arrested him.