The jury found him guilty of first-degree murder, despite his protests that he saw the man he was accused of killing in a holding cell after the shooting.
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The attorney and prosecutors have a history of contention. The lawyer’s attorney described the incident as minor.
Erick Rangel-Ibarra was booked into the Clark County Detention Center on Thursday on charges including open murder in connection with the killing of Lesly Palacio.
Jayden Collins, 16, was found fatally shot outside a northeast Las Vegas Valley home that had just hosted a large gathering.
A 20-year-old woman has been arrested in connection with a shooting death Saturday in the central Las Vegas Valley.
The Metropolitan Police Department uses deadly force at a higher rate than many other urban police agencies, according to a Review-Journal analysis
Want detailed information on how many people were shot by police in the United States last year? That’s not so easy to find.
Las Vegas police were involved in 17 shootings in 2003. Ten subjects were black, an unusually high number even for a department that historically shoots a disproportionate number of minorities. None of the officers were black.
They serve and protect. And sometimes they shoot and kill. Las Vegas Valley police have been involved in 378 shootings since 1990, 142 of them fatal. One agency alone, the Metropolitan Police Department, was responsible for 310 shootings and 115 deaths.
The homicide investigation and coroner’s inquest that followed her son’s 1999 shooting death left Connie Perrin angry and dissatisfied, so she sought emotional and financial redress in federal court.
In the wake of two controversial officer-involved shooting deaths in the summer of 2010, the Review-Journal set out to analyze two decades of shootings by officers from the Las Vegas Valley’s five major law enforcement agencies
In June 1996, Andre Rowe sat in a packed hearing room listening to testimony about the night his father was killed by Las Vegas police officer George “Gregg” Pease, who was in the position of having to explain his third fatal shooting in five years.
Police shootings make headlines. Far more common incidents when an officer would be justified in using deadly force, but elects not to, seldom get much attention.
A Review-Journal examination of all police shootings in Clark County since 1990 found that cops who use their guns sometimes show a pattern of questionable behavior beforehand or land in serious trouble after.
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Erick Rangel-Ibarra was booked into the Clark County Detention Center on Thursday on charges including open murder in connection with the killing of Lesly Palacio.
Nathan Williams acknowledged shooting Bryant Johnson twice, but said the alleged victim was trying to rob and kill him.
Victor Cardena-Pizarro, 20, pleaded guilty to harboring, concealing, or aiding a felony offender in district court that Tuesday morning.
Adolfo Orozco was sentenced to prison in June for his role in the 2019 fire that killed six people at the Alpine Motel Apartments.
