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Police: Suspect in custody after woman’s central Las Vegas killing

(Las Vegas Review-Journal)

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A person was in custody in connection with a woman’s killing in central Las Vegas Saturday morning.

The Metropolitan Police Department was called at 8:17 a.m. to a home in the 1300 block of Torington Drive, near North Torrey Pines Drive and West Washington Avenue, police Lt. Mark Lourenco said.

Lourenco said officers arrested a suspect in the woman’s death.

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