Gerald Polk is being held at the Henderson Detention Center on charges of murder, possessing narcotics for sale and possessing a firearm by prohibited person.A body was found at an apartment complex near East Warm Springs Road and Center Street.
Henderson police are calling the deaths of the 55-year-old man and 54-year-old woman an apparent murder-suicide after the bodies were found with gunshot wounds.
On deciding Javier Righetti’s punishment for the rape and murder of 15-year-old Alyssa Otremba, a prosecutor on Tuesday urged jurors to look no further than the defendant’s own words.
The woman shot dead in the central valley Sunday night has been identified by the Clark County Coroner’s office.
Raymond Quinsell Lewis IV told police he strangled his 20-year-old girlfriend and burned her body after she called him lazy, according to his arrest report.
A month before he killed 15-year-old Alyssa Otremba in northwest Las Vegas, Mexican police issued an arrest warrant for Javier Righetti in connection with the rape of his cousin.
A woman was shot and killed in the central Las Vegas valley Sunday evening.
The Clark County coroner has determined that 5-month-old Izayah Pelaez-Daniel died of blunt force head trauma and ruled his Oct. 8 death a homicide.
Clark County prosecutors intend to seek capital punishment for a man accused of fatally shooting a man in January for sitting next to his date at a Las Vegas bar.
A Las Vegas jury is hearing evidence Friday to help it to decide whether Javier Righetti should receive the death penalty for raping and killing a 15-year-old girl.
A man was jailed on a murder charge in the death of a 20-year-old woman whose body was found in a northwest valley apartment complex last week.
Javier Righetti was convicted of first-degree murder Thursday in the 2011 stabbing death of a 15-year-old Las Vegas girl, and prosecutors plan to seek capital punishment.
A young woman shot dead in the backyard of a vacant northwest home has been identified as 19-year-old Alyssa Sayago of Las Vegas.
The Clark County coroner’s office identified the 20-year-old woman found dead at a west valley apartment complex last week.
Metro police are investigating the fatal shooting as a domestic violence incident. The woman who shot him inside a northwest Las Vegas Valley home told police he was her ex-boyfriend.