IN BRIEF

ONE DEAD

20-year-old charged in parking lot shooting

Las Vegas police arrested a 20-year-old man Friday in connection with a Thanksgiving Day slaying at a CVS Pharmacy parking lot in the northwest valley.

Police allege that Lionel Collins III was the gunman who left a man dead about 1 p.m. in a rolled-over car near Tenaya Way and Craig Road. Police said they think the shooting was linked to a drug deal.

Authorities have not released the name of the dead man.

Collins was booked into the Clark County Detention Center on a charge of murder with a deadly weapon. He is being held without bail.

Witnesses told Las Vegas police that two men were parked side by side when a man in a beat-up orange car shot a man in a purple sedan.

The victim drove his car into a palm tree and the vehicle flipped. He was pronounced dead at the scene from what police said was a single gunshot wound in his chest.

THANKSGIVING DAY

One dead, two injured in Route 95 crash in Arizona

A fatal Thanksgiving day two-vehicle collision is under investigation in northwest Arizona. The Department of Public Safety said the crash occurred at 3:23 p.m., on state Route 95 in Mohave Valley.

Officials said Michael McLaughlin, 31, of Bullhead City was southbound when he lost control of his 1997 Ford sedan that left the highway and returned before spinning and being struck by a northbound 2003 Chevrolet Tracker. McLaughlin was dead at the scene of the accident.

The driver of the Chevrolet, Dan Duncan, 71, Maples Falls, Wash., and his passenger, Jeffrey Helke, 48, Madera, Calif., were airlifted to Las Vegas for treatment of their injuries.

CRAIG ROAD INCIDENT

Pickup driver held after motorcyclist dies in collision

A 26-year-old man died early Friday when the motorcycle he was driving collided with a truck on Craig Road near North Fifth Street, North Las Vegas police said.

The driver of the 2001 Chevrolet pickup fled the scene of the crash, which occurred about 12:20 a.m.

Emmanuel Gordian, 21, was arrested about three hours later and booked into the North Las Vegas Detention Center on one felony count of reckless driving resulting in death and one count of leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death.

Investigators said Gordian was traveling in excess of 100 mph east on Craig when the collision occurred.

The victim, who was not identified by police, also was traveling east. He was thrown from the 2006 Suzuki motorcycle he was riding and pronounced dead at the scene.