Eric Covington stabbed his estranged girlfriend, Sagittarius Gomez, more than 120 times over the course of an hour because he did not want her to be with another man, prosecutors said Friday during opening statements of his death penalty trial.
On Friday, Metro arrested 21-year-old Demond Billingsly, who was baby-sitting Lyriq Elaine Clayton on the day she died, in connection with the 18-month-old girl’s death. He was booked into the Clark County Detention Center on one count of murder by child abuse.
A federal jury this week convicted a Las Vegas man in the November 2013 shooting death of a marijuana supplier during a deal inside a North Las Vegas apartment.
Metropolitan Police Department officers shot and killed a man Wednesday night on the 215 Beltway in northwest Las Vegas after a car chase.
A 5-month-old boy died at a Las Vegas hospital Saturday after being found unresponsive in the southwest valley.
The man shot and killed Tuesday morning in downtown Las Vegas has been identified as David Teel, 38.
The Kentucky woman’s son was fatally beaten and strangled while locked in his cell Saturday with another inmate.
Las Vegas police are looking for a person of interest in connection with the death of a man whose body was found Tuesday inside an apartment just north of UNLV.
The Clark County Detention Center inmate charged in connection with the fatal beating and strangulation of his cellmate Saturday also tried to strangle an inmate in September, records show.
A man was shot and killed in downtown Las Vegas Tuesday morning, police said.
A Henderson police detective testified on Monday that Daron Lewis Clanton, who is charged with murder in the death of his father, was “very calm” and “nonchalant” in the aftermath of the shooting Jan. 11.
A 22-year-old woman pleaded guilty but mentally ill Monday to voluntary manslaughter in the death of her infant son, though authorities never found the child’s body.
The inmate who died after he was found bleeding in his cell Saturday at the Clark County Detention Center has been identified as Jeremy Bowling, 25.
An inmate at the Clark County Detention Center died after he was found bleeding from the head in his cell Saturday, according to a Metro press release.
Las Vegas police are responding to a Saturday night homicide at the Clark County Detention Center.