Man dies in officer-involved shooting in North Las Vegas
Four North Las Vegas officers shot and killed a man who “lunged” at officers while holding a machete early Wednesday in a residential area, police said.
Officers were called about 2 a.m. Wednesday to the area of Tonopah Avenue and Bruce Street, north of Owens Avenue, after multiple reports of a man walking in the street with a gun, the North Las Vegas Police Department said in a statement. While questioning someone, police saw another man “fitting the description.”
When police approached the second man, they saw he was “carrying a machete,” the department said.
“The officers gave him verbal commands but he refused to comply and lunged at the officers with the machete raised,” police said.
Four officers shot the man multiple times, police said.
He was taken to University Medical Center, where he died. It was not immediately clear if the man killed was the subject of the 911 calls.
The Clark County coroner’s office will identify the man after his family has been notified. The department will release the names of the officers who shot the man within 72 hours.
The officers are on routine paid administrative leave while the department investigates the shooting, police said.
Wednesday marked the sixth police shooting involving North Las Vegas police this year, and the fourth fatal shooting, according to records maintained by the Review-Journal.
Further information was not immediately available.
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