A felon accused of shooting a Chinatown waiter multiple times was released from jail six days before the crime with the help of a national nonprofit.
Shootings
Las Vegas police are investigating a shooting late Tuesday that left a Las Vegas woman with a gunshot wound to the face.
Gary Walker, 57, was originally accused of murder, but pleaded guilty to felony counts of manslaughter resulting in death and attempted sexual assault.
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.
Chengyan Wang was shot in an after-hours burglary at ShangHai Taste, 4266 W. Spring Mountain Road, on Dec. 20.
Edward Charles Jones, 28, was booked at the Clark County Detention Center on a single count of murder with use of a deadly weapon Thursday.
“(Chengyan Wang) opened his eyes yesterday miraculously,” said the co-owner of the ShangHai Taste restaurant. “It is the best news we have gotten in a very long time.”
A waiter shot multiple times by a burglar at a Chinatown restaurant was fighting for his life Tuesday after undergoing a string of surgeries at University Medical Center.
The shooting, which left the renter in critical condition, is at least the second in Las Vegas in the last four months involving unpaid rent.
The shooting at East Silverado Ranch Boulevard and Gillespie Street about 7:45 a.m. left one person injured and closed roads in the area.
Las Vegas police have made an arrest in a targeted killing at a Summerlin restaurant on Nov. 23.
Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo said on Tuesday that a “person of interest” has been identified in a brazen killing at a Summerlin restaurant in November.
A teen has been charged with attempted murder in a November shooting on the Las Vegas Strip that left a man seriously injured, according to police and court records
A man shot to death last week in a Summerlin restaurant previously served time in prison for his role in the 2009 shooting death of a 9-year-old girl in North Las Vegas.
Cesar Garcia, 51, was killed in the parking lot of the Broadacres Marketplace in North Las Vegas on Nov. 20. Ray Ngankou, 19, of Las Vegas has been charged with murder in the case.