North Las Vegas police shot and killed a man who reportedly raised a firearm towards several officers on Saturday night, according to authorities.
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A male was injured in an apparent shooting in Henderson on Friday night.
Operation Summer Shield 2024, a multi-jurisdictional sex offender verification operation, took place June 3-7, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.
Las Vegas police say the suspects admit they were at the scene of the crime in the southeast valley, but they deny killing a man and a woman found dead there.
Bump stocks, which allow semi-automatic weapons to fire like machine guns, were used in mass shootings like the one that killed 60 people in Las Vegas.
Police said the men were passengers in a white SUV when they were each shot in the head about 2 p.m. after an altercation that may have started at the Union 76 station on the corner of Owens Avenue and Martin Luther King Boulevard.
North Las Vegas police are investigating a possible road-rage shooting that left one man dead near Craig Road and North Fifth Street early Friday morning.
The final man Las Vegas police were looking for in connection with the fatal shooting of a southwest valley Lee’s Discount Liquor cashier two weeks ago turned himself in late Wednesday night — a day after police made two high-profile arrests involving the case.
A man who admitted to fatally shooting 44-year-old Tammy Meyers is having second thoughts about a deal he made with prosecutors.
Henderson police arrested a man Tuesday in connection with a fatal shooting inside a car that crashed into a Henderson home earlier this month.
Women in Nevada are 65 percent more likely to be fatally shot by an intimate partner than women in other states, according to a new study.
Before a central valley couple died in an apparent murder-suicide early Tuesday, the terrified woman’s screams awakened neighbor David Wheatcraft.
A man wanted in connection to a February murder was killed early Saturday after he entered a central valley apartment armed and was shot by one of its residents, Las Vegas police confirmed Wednesday, and the case he was wanted in connection to has since been closed.
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A fatal shooting at a Walmart parking lot is being investigated as a possible case of self-defense, according to the Henderson Police Department.
A suspect accused in a hit-and-run crash that killed a pedestrian told investigators that she had struck construction equipment, according to her arrest report.
The bodies were discovered June 5 in the 4900 block of South Droubay Drive, near Tropicana Avenue.
Henderson police and fire crews responded to reports of a shooting at about 1:30 p.m. in the 500 block of Marks Street.
