A man who had been facing the death penalty for killing his girlfriend and engaging in an hours-long standoff with police pleaded guilty Wednesday as a jury was being selected for his trial.
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A Las Vegas man should be executed for shooting and killing 15-year-old Alexus Postorino inside her home, a jury decided Thursday.
A jury on Wednesday convicted Norman Belcher of first-degree murder in the December 2010 shooting death of 15-year-old Alexus Postorino because of a dispute with her father over $450.
Testimony wrapped up Tuesday afternoon in the death penalty trial of a 41-year-old Las Vegas man accused of killing a 15-year-old girl and injuring another man during a shooting and drug-related robbery.
A Clark County District Court judge ruled Friday that Erich Nowsch’s guilty plea will stand.
The 13-year-old fatally shot in a west valley smoke shop Friday night was at least 40 feet away from the clerk and running out of the store as he was shot, a police report said.
Talking to police moments after learning his 15-year-old daughter Alexus was fatally shot, William Postorino didn’t want to believe that a man he had considered a friend for more than 30 years could be the killer.
Prosecutors have dismissed a murder charge against a Las Vegas man who was accused in the fatal shooting of a 28-year-old woman in the central valley last month.
A 24-year-old man was indicted this week in a fatal shooting just east of the Strip.
Moments after jurors convicted a 47-year-old man of first-degree murder in his third trial on Tuesday, a judge indicated that the case would have to be presented to yet another jury.
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