Officers on Aug. 14 found a man unresponsive and another person suffering from a laceration.
The North Las Vegas Police Department said officers responded to the 3200 block of Mary Dee Avenue, near Civic Center Drive and Cheyenne Avenue, at about 2:52 a.m.
Ricky Lee Trader, 48, was linked to the crime scene by his DNA and sentenced to a 10- to 25-year prison term by District Judge Michelle Leavitt.
A prosecutor said the suspect lived with Jesus Ayala, one of the teens accused of killing a retired police chief in a 2023 hit-and-run crash.
She is expected to serve a stipulated sentence of 18 years to life, with credit for the time she has been in custody, according to the lawyer.
The shooting stemmed from a dispute over the teen’s electronics access, court records indicate.
One person died and a second was critically injured after an apparent dispute between the two resulted in a stabbing, police said.
Murder suspects often deny committing the crime. But Nathan Williams claims to have seen the man he is accused of killing in a holding cell after authorities say the fatal shooting occurred.
Two Southern Nevada detention centers have beefed up surveillance after four inmates, all under the age of 40, were found dead at the facilities in the past month in homicides.
A February trial is expected to go forward for the man accused of organizing the killing of rapper Tupac Shakur, his new attorneys said at a press conference.
A man who was shot and killed on Friday by North Las Vegas police responding to a domestic disturbance has been identified.
A North Las Vegas teen who was fatally shot Tuesday night at a house party in the northwest Las Vegas Valley has been identified.
A background check on Shane Tamura had not been been completed before he purchased the AR-style weapon used to fatally shoot four people in Manhattan.
Carl Arnold, who represented Duane “Keffe D” Davis during the April trial, informed Judge Krall that Davis changed lawyers in his separate murder case two days earlier.
After he made his guilty plea, his family and the victim’s approached each other outside the courtroom and shared tearful embraces.