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.
Henderson police conducted a raid Wednesday in the criminal investigation into the 2015 death of attorney Susan Winters.
A Las Vegas man was ordered to serve 28 years to life in prison for fatally stabbing his 40-year-old ex-wife in front of two of their children.
Talking to police moments after learning his 15-year-old daughter Alexus was fatally shot, William Postorino didn’t want to believe that a man he had considered a friend for more than 30 years could be the killer.
The father of the 13-year-old boy who was fatally shot Friday at a west valley smoke shop said Tuesday he forgives the clerk who is now behind bars in connection with his son’s death.
About 7:45 a.m. Metropolitan Police Department patrol officers were dispatched to the 11200 block of Gillespie Street near East Starr Avenue to investigate a body found in a vacant lot.
A Nevada man with a criminal history spanning five decades has been sentenced to life in prison for killing an 80-year-old bank customer during an armed robbery in Reno in 2013.
“Everybody’s concerned,” said Metro homicide Lt. Dan McGrath while on the scene of Fabriccio Patti’s shooting Friday. “And it should be not just the police’s concern — it’s the whole community’s concern, that we have a rise in violence, specifically gun violence.”
Fifteen-year-old Alexus Postorino was shot and killed because of a dispute over $450, prosecutors suggested Monday through testimony in the death penalty trial of Norman Belcher.
Police have not yet established a motive for the killing of Michael Tzaras, 46, north of downtown.
Nevada death row inmate Scott Dozier, convicted in two killings, recently told a judge that he wants to die, but state prison officials can’t find a way to execute him.
The man shot and killed by his father Tuesday night “looked up to him,” family members said.
A teen was fatally shot by a smoke shop employee Friday night after he and two other youths entered the southwest valley store wearing masks, likely intending to rob the business, police said.