Man arrested after death of homeless man in downtown Las Vegas

Karsten Merrick, 24, was taken into custody Tuesday and booked into the Clark County Detention Center for open murder with a deadly weapon, the Metropolitan Police Department said in a release.

The shooting was reported around 4:30 a.m. May 8 on the 800 block of South 6th Street, between Gass and Hoover avenues. Officers found a man in his 60s bleeding from his wounds. Medical personnel responded and ultimately pronounced his dead at the scene.

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