Metro Lt. Robert Price said a man was shot and killed during an argument with an group of people who then fled the scene. Their whereabouts are currently unknown, Price said.
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A son killed both his mother and father in the east Las Vegas Valley according to a release from the Metropolitan Police Department.
Prosecutors said they recently became aware of the existence of Nest camera footage from his home that, they said, must be handed over as discovery.
An imprisoned Discovery Channel reality show star faces a murder charge after his cellmate was found dead following a fight at the Clark County Detention Center on Friday, police said.
Court records indicated that Mead’s attorneys, Robert Eglet, Erica Etsminger, and Joel Henriod, are contesting the verdict, alleging misconduct by General Motors.
Federal and local authorities raided a storage facility just west of the Strip Wednesday in an ongoing synthetic drug investigation. Police said they were not targeting the Power Exchange sex club, which happened to share space with the facility.
Las Vegas police have located 8-year-old James Gonzalez, who went missing around 6:30 p.m. yesterday near his home on Sunrise Avenue at 28th Street.
A national commission that monitors and investigates civil rights issues should consider a Henderson case in which police allegedly forced their way into a family’s home to gain “tactical advantage” over the occupant of a neighboring home, according to a Las Vegas city councilman who serves on an advisory board to the group.
About 70 people gathered for a “Justice for Trayvon” march on the Strip Tuesday night following George Zimmerman’s Florida acquittal in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.
A teenager was hit by a hit-and-run vehicle Tuesday evening and taken to the hospital.
Las Vegas police charged a man Tuesday in the death of a 1-year-old boy. Bransen Locks, 36, who was in custody on unrelated arrest warrants, was charged with murder in the death of Bently Olsen after police said he caused injuries to the boy consistent with shaken baby syndrome.
One man was take to the hospital after being overcome by fumes from an unidentified substance at the FedEx Ship Center in North Las Vegas Tuesday.
A young man who bought a handgun from a Reno police sergeant was adjudicated as mentally ill by a judge and prohibited from purchasing a weapon, but his name was never entered into a background check system because of a coding error, the Reno Gazette-Journal reported Tuesday.
Three air conditioning units were stolen from the roof of the 10-year-old, 53,000 square foot the Donald W. Reynolds clubhouse, part of the Boys and Girls Club of Southern Nevada.
With the help of informants wearing a wire, an undercover sting by federal agents and Las Vegas police foiled a 2008 plot to rig a homeowners association election, according to an FBI affidavit that surfaced in court documents late last week.
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A lawyer for Carrie Cox asked a judge to dismiss a felony charge against the Henderson councilwoman for allegedly recording another councilwoman’s private conversation due to insufficient evidence.
Assistant Sheriff Fred Haas showed body camera footage and photos during a news briefing about a Dec. 19 police shooting that left a man wounded.
Markeem Benson, 30, was pronounced dead at High Desert State Prison, authorities said.
Kenwonn Montgomery, 46, was charged with one count of open murder and two counts of assault with a deadly weapon.
