Authorities released details about the circumstances that led to a police officer fatally shooting a man suspected of robbing someone outside a Target store.
Shootings
Two men were shot, and one was killed, in a Las Vegas neighborhood when they decided to chase the people who had just robbed them, according to police.
A vehicle driven by a 29-year-old armed robbery suspect smashed into the rear of the Army veteran’s car on March 1 in Henderson, police said.
A 101-year-old World War II Army veteran suffered a broken neck last week, his family said, when a robbery suspect crashed into his car before a police shooting in Henderson.
The shooting occurred near West Sunset Road and North Stephanie Street after Las Vegas police pursued a stolen vehicle connected with a suspected robbery.
Justin Leigh Venegas went on a rampage that authorities said sparked an hour-long, 47-mile police chase with cops and Venegas shooting at each other. Police said they had no choice but to pursue.
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.
Police are seeking a man who attempted to rob and shoot a person Sunday afternoon in the northwest Las Vegas Valley.
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.
The shootings in parking garages at the Fashion Show mall and Palace Station, which took the lives of a 66-year-old woman and a man in his 50s, are believed to be related.
A man accused of shooting a waiter 11 times at a Chinatown restaurant was ordered held without bail early Tuesday by a justice of the peace.
A bank robbery suspect fatally shot by police had told his girlfriend earlier in the day that he was going to “do something to get police to shoot him,” Las Vegas police said during a briefing Monday.
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.
Testimony began Tuesday in the death penalty trial of a man accused of killing a Lee’s Discount Liquor clerk during a robbery.