Domestic quarrel leads to fatal shooting in northwest Las Vegas neighborhood

A domestic quarrel Sunday morning in a far northwest Las Vegas neighborhood ended in gunfire and a homicide investigation, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.

The victim died at the scene and his girlfriend’s adult son, who was described as the suspected shooter, was detained, Lt. Robert Price said Sunday afternoon.

Multiple people called 911 reporting gunfire in the 10000 block of Mount Blackburn Avenue, near Farm and North Shaumber roads, about 10 a.m., Price said.

Officers entered a house and found the fatally wounded victim, Price said.

Citing a preliminary investigation, Price said the man and the suspected shooter had been in a “verbal altercation” before he “pulled out a firearm” and shot him.

In a news release Monday, authorities identified the suspect as Akili Porter, 24.

Price described the killing as an isolated incident and said the men lived together in the home with the victim’s girlfriend.

Police said Porter was taken into custody and booked into the Clark County Detention Center for open murder with a deadly weapon.

Contact Ricardo Torres-Cortez at rtorres@reviewjournal.com.