California has some of the strictest gun laws in the nation, but the man accused of killing three people at the Gilroy Garlic Festival was able to purchase a semi-automatic rifle across the border in Nevada.
Shootings
The Clark County district attorney’s office will not file criminal charges against a Las Vegas officer who shot and killed a knife-wielding man in August during a welfare check.
U.S. Attorney’s Office in Las Vegas says Douglas Haig’s motion to move his trial to Northern Nevada may be a move to draw “pro-gun” jurors who “would be more favorable to him.”
One person died early Friday after the second of two shootings in less than six hours at a west Las Vegas apartment complex.
Las Vegas police identified a murder suspect in the shooting death of a 24-year-old woman after they determined she would’ve been unable to shoot herself in the manner she was found.
Las Vegas police on Wednesday night shot a man suspected of stealing a truck after he appeared to reach for a gun while officers tried to apprehend him in the east valley.
Ilario Yam, 18, faces charges of battery with the use of a deadly weapon resulting in substantial injuries and discharging a gun within a prohibited structure or area.
A man was hospitalized in unknown condition with a gunshot wound to the leg after a shooting near downtown Las Vegas on Tuesday night, police said.
Air Force Staff Sgt. Kenneth DeLongchamp received the Airman’s Medal on Friday, one of just a few to receive the award for nonservice-related action.
The district attorney’s office has ruled there will be no criminal prosecution of a Las Vegas police sergeant who shot and killed a man last year, it was announced Friday.
The attorney for Noah Hadley, accused of fatally shooting his girlfriend after a Henderson house party, called the young woman’s death a “tragic accident.”
Las Vegas police on Wednesday released a 158-page internal review of the department’s response to the Route 91 Harvest festival attack.
Michael Rakem Menephee, 20, was pronounced dead on Saturday at University Medical Center, three days after he was shot at a northwest condominium complex.
A 33-year-old man identified himself as the perpetrator of a shooting while walking up to the scene last month in North Las Vegas, an arrest report said.
A man was shot Monday evening near Paradise Road and Twain Avenue, and later died at Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center, a Las Vegas police spokesman said.