Shootings

Las Vegas police didn’t include 58 shooting victims in homicide total

Las Vegas Review-Journal Reporter Roundtable: Metro's 2017 crime numbers

More Stories

This image from surveillance video obtained by The Associated Press shows Shane Tamura outside ...

Report: Manhattan gunman sought treatment for chronic headaches in Las Vegas

This undated image provided by Las Vegas Dept. of Motor Vehicles shows Shane Tamura. (Las Vega ...

Warrant records show what police found at Las Vegas apartment tied to NYC gunman

Manuel Ruiz, arrested in connection with the livestreamed killing of two people in front of the ...

Prosecutors to seek death for suspect in fatal Las Vegas Strip shooting

Horseshoe supervisor legally sold assault rifle to NYC gunman, lawyer says

Las Vegas Review-Journal

February 23, 2018 - 5:51 pm

Las Vegas Review-Journal reporters bring you the latest stories and updates on the Oct. 1 mass shooting.

This week, crime reporter Rachel Crosby discusses why Las Vegas police decided not to include the 58 shooting victims as part of the 2017 homicide numbers. Crosby’s full story on Metro crime numbers will be released Monday.

Reporters will gather to discuss the latest stories every Friday on reviewjournal.com.

If you have any questions you’d like to ask reporters on this segment, please send an email to ewilson@reviewjournal.com.

Report: Manhattan gunman sought treatment for chronic headaches in Las Vegas

By Kevin J. Barr / RJ

August 3, 2025 - 4:32 pm

The shooter who killed four people in a Manhattan office building housing the NFL’s headquarters had sought medical treatment for debilitating headaches, ESPN reported on Sunday.

Warrant records show what police found at Las Vegas apartment tied to NYC gunman

By Noble Brigham / RJ

August 1, 2025 - 7:06 pm

Authorities confiscated several items from a Las Vegas apartment tied to a gunman who used an AR-15-style rifle to kill four people in Manhattan, according to records made public Friday.

Prosecutors to seek death for suspect in fatal Las Vegas Strip shooting

By Noble Brigham / RJ

August 1, 2025 - 7:02 pm

Authorities have said the livestreamed shooting that killed two in front of the Fountains of Bellagio stemmed from a social media feud.

Horseshoe supervisor legally sold assault rifle to NYC gunman, lawyer says

By David Ferrara / RJ

July 31, 2025 - 5:12 pm

Attorney Chris Rasmussen said the killer’s boss, Rick Ackley, “did everything right. The transfer was through a federal firearms licensee and it was all lawful.”

Las Vegas man accused of fatally shooting mother expressed paranoia, police say

By Akiya Dillon / RJ

July 31, 2025 - 12:07 pm

Jacob Lister, 26, was arrested in connection with a shooting in the 7800 block of West Ford Avenue, near South Buffalo Drive.

Police respond to a shooting outside the Grand Sierra Resort in Reno, Nev., Monday, July 28, 20 ...

Gunman who killed 3 at Reno casino dies

The Associated Press

July 31, 2025 - 11:19 am

The shooter, a 26-year-old Reno resident, died in the overnight hours, police announced.

An entrance to the Grand Sierra Resort is closed after a shooting occurred at the resort in Ren ...

Victims of Reno shooting include 2 visiting for a bachelor party, police say

The Associated Press

July 30, 2025 - 11:25 am

The two 23-year-old men were in town from California for a bachelor party, and the third victim was a 66-year-old man who lived in the area, authorities said.

‘Study my brain’: Was NYC shooter Shane Tamura suffering from CTE?

By Mary Hynes / RJ

July 31, 2025 - 9:06 am

Shane Tamura, the Las Vegas man responsible for a NYC shooting that left 4 dead, blamed football and the NFL for his perceived struggle with the neurodegenerative disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).

NYPD: Horseshoe boss sold NYC gunman his weapon, car

By Jennifer Peltz and Dave Collins The Associated Press

July 30, 2025 - 7:16 pm

New York Police Department Commissioner Jessica Tisch said Tamura used an AR-15 style semiautomatic rifle in Monday’s shooting that he assembled using a lower receiver purchased by an associate.

California football coach recalls Shane Tamura as ‘just a quiet kid’

By McKenna Ross / RJ

July 30, 2025 - 6:22 am

Details about Shane Tamura’s life have emerged after the Las Vegas man fatally shot four people in a New York City skyscraper before turning his gun on himself.