Drugs and gang activity might have led to two Sunday night shootings in the central valley that left one man dead and another injured.
Officers identified a second suspect in a deadly shooting and abduction Wednesday in the west valley, police said.
The man, who was in his 40s, suffered at least one gunshot wound a little after 3 a.m. outside the Rancho Discount Mall, 2901 W. Washington Ave., Metropolitan Police Homicide Lt. Dan McGrath said. The man was pronounced dead at the scene.
Las Vegas police are investigating a fatal drive-by shooting Monday morning in the northeast valley.
Outside the couple’s house in the immediate aftermath of the shooting, McGrath said the teen who called 911 had performed CPR on his mother. Her death is the 11th homicide investigated by Metro this year.
Las Vegas police are investigating a homicide after a search and rescue helicopter spotted a body on Frenchman Mountain while searching for a pair of hikers.
A suspect is facing two murder charges in connection with the December shooting deaths of a homeless man and woman.
A man arrested in connection with a Tuesday shooting that left one man dead after a dispute over loud music is facing a murder charge.
Weldeyoanes Zelealem was shot and killed by her husband, Abebe Teferi, while she was working at the Herbst Market at 9475 W. Desert Inn Road, according to Teferi’s arrest report.
According to Las Vegas Review-Journal records, Metro investigated 171 homicides, not including the 58 deaths from the mass shooting on Oct. 1.
A man, a woman, two teenagers and an infant were in the SUV, McGrath said. As a teenage boy in the back seat tried to fight the man off, the driver grabbed a gun and hit the man in the head with it several times.
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