Investigators have concluded that a Mohave Valley man shot and killed his former girlfriend and the woman’s uncle before taking his own life Monday.
The Clark County coroner has identified the man found stabbed to death Saturday in Henderson as Leroy Pelton, a former UNLV professor.
A man booked on charges of sexual assault and kidnapping in October now faces murder charges after Las Vegas police used DNA evidence to link him to two separate cold cases.
A homicide in north Kingman on Wednesday is under investigation by the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office.
A jury on Wednesday convicted Norman Belcher of first-degree murder in the December 2010 shooting death of 15-year-old Alexus Postorino because of a dispute with her father over $450.
Testimony wrapped up Tuesday afternoon in the death penalty trial of a 41-year-old Las Vegas man accused of killing a 15-year-old girl and injuring another man during a shooting and drug-related robbery.
Three people were arrested in Las Vegas in connection with a November homicide in a Dallas hotel, The Dallas Morning News reported Monday.
Police are investigating the suspicious death of an elderly man whose body was found Saturday night inside a Henderson home.
A gunshot wound to the head caused the death of a man whose body was found in a desert area Tuesday morning, according to the Clark County coroner, who ruled the death a homicide.
A Clark County District Court judge ruled Friday that Erich Nowsch’s guilty plea will stand.
A notice of intent to seek the death penalty against Alonso Perez, 25, who also escaped North Las Vegas police custody for several days in September, was filed Friday.
The 13-year-old fatally shot in a west valley smoke shop Friday night was at least 40 feet away from the clerk and running out of the store as he was shot, a police report said.
Carlos Lopez-Perez, 25, was found dead in a vacant lot near the 11200 block of Gillespie Street about 7:45 a.m., according to Las Vegas police.
The 13-year-old boy who was killed Friday at a west valley smoke shop was shot multiple times in the back and at least once in the head, the boy’s father said Wednesday. That information could help explain why investigators decided Monday to pursue a murder charge against the smoke shop clerk accused of firing the fatal shots.
The body of a Hispanic man in his 20s or 30s was found about 7:45 a.m. Tuesday in a vacant lot on the 11200 block of Gilespie Street.
