Two employees of the Silver Nugget casino in North Las Vegas died violently Thursday morning. One of them, 64, was the victim of a homicide. The other, 30, was the suspect, shot by a North Las Vegas police officer.
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A teen was shot and killed after a “gunfight” erupted just before 7 p.m. inside Silverwood Apartments at 3050 Nellis Boulevard, according to an officer at the scene.
The murder case against three men accused of storming into a southwest valley Lee’s Discount Liquor armed with handguns and killing a clerk is expected to be presented to a grand jury, prosecutors said Tuesday.
Three men appeared in Las Vegas court Friday to face charges in connection with the fatal shooting of a southwest valley Lee’s Discount Liquor cashier.
A mother and father were fatally shot in front of their two young children Thursday morning near the entrance of a North Las Vegas day care center, and both children were injured. Police said the incident may have been a murder-suicide.
Sherri Ficklin’s 24-year-old nephew was shot dead just after midnight Sunday — one of five fatal shootings the valley saw last weekend.
“Matthew did what I would expect him to do,” said the mother of the man killed Monday during an armed robbery at a Lee’s Discount Liquor in the southwest valley, who may have saved his pregnant coworker with his silence. “I’m very proud and honored that my son protected her and her son.”
Matthew Christensen, 24, was killed after three black men in their 20s caught on tape demanded he open a safe. Christensen didn’t have access to it, but his pregnant manager in another part of the store, Jamie Henderson, did. And he kept quiet.
The Lee’s Discount Liquor cashier had his hands up when he was shot several times Monday night during an armed robbery, police said. Detectives are searching for the three armed men responsible, caught on tape.