The Clark County coroner has identified human remains found encased in concrete at Lake Mead.
Jemar Matthews was found guilty of 12 counts, and sentenced to life in prison. His quest to overturn his conviction was unsuccessful for years — until this March, when a federal judge ruled that a prosecutor’s “plainly improper” comments ripped him of his fair trial rights and resulted in a wrongful conviction.
Through the eyes of convicted murderer Jeremy Strohmeyer, it was all the casino industry’s fault that 7-year-old Sherrice Iverson was strangled to death in a Primm casino on May 25, 1977.
While little Sherrice Iverson’s death 20 years ago was heinous, and Jeremy Strohmeyer’s confession was chilling, a third player in the high-profile case proved controversial: David Cash Jr., Strohmeyer’s best friend.
Sherrice Iverson was 7 when she was lured from an arcade into a Primm casino restroom 20 years ago, forced into the largest stall, sexually assaulted and slowly strangled before her killer snapped her neck.
Las Vegas police found Deas dead in a car about 6 p.m. May 11 at an apartment complex at 7075 W. Gowan Road. On May 16, Thayron Paxton and William Bogan, both 18, were booked on one count of open murder in connection with his death.
Shaun Leflore was acquitted Thursday of a first-degree murder charge in the 2006 death of his girlfriend. The shooting death was initially ruled a suicide.
The man who police said was fatally stabbed last week by his roommate has been identified as Ralph Edward Montoto, 58, of Las Vegas.
The Clark County Coroner’s office identified the man shot and killed Tuesday night after a fight in a northeast Las Vegas Valley home.
The Clark County coroner on Thursday identified the man who was shot and killed by his neighbor in Las Vegas earlier this week.
Police surveillance video released Wednesday shows a 30-year-old man pacing around a downtown street corner in the dark of night for nearly 14 minutes before whacking the head of a mannequin with a hammer.
Russell Fotter, 23, faces one charge of murder related to a homicide on the 4100 block of Eileen Street, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.
Police have accused two 18-year-old men in the shooting death of a man found dead in a car last week in northwest Las Vegas.
One person died after a shooting at a northeast Las Vegas Valley home on Tuesday night, police said.
Fort McDermitt Paiute-Shoshone Tribe member Nelson Ray McKee sentenced to serve 10 years for voluntary manslaughter in 2014 New Year’s Eve killing of his wife, Chery Lynn Jackson.