The shooting took place in the 2800 block of East Taylor Avenue a few blocks east of Civic Center Drive, according to the department.
Shootings
Several persons in the area were held so that police could investigate the gunplay, but no one was reported injured, Zemsta said.
North Las Vegas police officers responded at about 8 p.m. to a report of a 13-year-old boy who had been shot in the 3200 block of Fountain Falls Way.
Isiah Robinson’s food truck was almost sold out Thursday during a fundraiser for the funeral expenses of Schinara Patterson, a 34-year-old mother, and two of her children, all of whom were shot to death Monday.
A third child found shot Monday inside an apartment near Durango Drive and U.S. Highway 95 was “clinging to life,” police said at the time.
“I mean, he just showed up and shot us,” said Robert Tully, 62.
It’s the seventh police shooting in Metro’s jurisdiction of 2023, police said.
Robert Hoy moved to Las Vegas to care for his daughter with autism, according to Bruce Moore, his longtime friend.
One person was detained after a man was shot and killed Tuesday afternoon within a large shopping complex in southwest Las Vegas, police said.
A 54-year-old man died after suffering a gunshot wound Monday night in the Lake Las Vegas community in Henderson, police said.
Police received a call at 5:19 a.m. about an injured man sprawled in the alley in the 200 block of West Monroe Avenue near B Street.
About a dozen Las Vegas police officers were seen entering an apartment where a man was shot several times in the central valley.
The man had walked toward officers holding a kitchen knife and asking to be shot, according to a police video released this week.
A 22-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a shooting this week that prompted police to briefly close a major street near downtown Las Vegas.
A man was killed in an early morning shooting Thursday inside an apartment across from a high school in downtown Las Vegas, according to Metro.