A man was arrested on two charges following an officer-involved shooting Friday morning in the east valley, Las Vegas police records show.
Shootings
Local officials had only praise for the police response after viewing footage this week that showed two officers holding their position in a hallway one floor beneath the Oct. 1 gunman for nearly five minutes as he fired into the Route 91 Harvest festival.
Michael Salvador Torres, 24, and Jose Flores, 34, were arrested after an officer involved shooting of a burglary suspect in southwest Utah.
A man got out of the car at Lamb and St. Louis Avenue and fled on foot, leading the officer on a chase through a neighborhood. As the man climbed over a wall on the 4100 block of St. Louis, he turned back toward the officer with an object in his hand and the officer fired a single shot, police said.
He was shot about 8:15 p.m. on the 300 block of West Cleveland Avenue, near Las Vegas Boulevard and Sahara Avenue, Metropolitan Police Department Lt. Dave Sims said.
A Las Vegas man was convicted Thursday of killing his ex-girlfriend and another man just hours after she called police to report a previous attack.
Newly released body camera footage shows one established triage area where victims with gunshot wounds were sent the night of Oct. 1, and the struggle to tend to their injuries with limited resources.
A Las Vegas man charged in connection with the shooting death of his 2-year-old son has agreed to plead guilty to a pair of felonies.
An argument between two men in North Las Vegas escalated into an exchange of gunfire that left one man dead and the other with nonlife-threatening injuries Thursday morning.
Newly released body camera footage captured the moment on Oct. 1 when officer Brady Cook was shot on the Strip. It was his second night on the job.
A Las Vegas teenager who authorities say fired several rounds from a semiautomatic rifle at a Metropolitan Police Department officer while streaming the attack on Facebook Live has entered a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity.
In newly released body camera footage, two Las Vegas police officers can be seen holding their position in a hallway one floor beneath the Oct. 1 gunman as rounds are continually fired into the concert crowd below.
The man accused of killing a Venetian executive during a company picnic at Sunset Park made his first appearance in a Las Vegas court Wednesday.
A 16-year-old girl who was gunned down in April was shot after a Facebook Live conversation between two rival gangs, according to a shooting suspect’s arrest report.
The teen was playing with a gun just before 5 p.m. on the 7900 block of Terrace Rock Way, near Cimarron Road and Vegas Drive, when he fired the weapon, Metropolitan Police Department Lt. Grant Rogers said.