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.
Wright, 31, a felon, was facing more than 100 years in prison if convicted of stealing $1.1 million worth of jewelry in a string of armed robberies in Southern Nevada in 2014, defense lawyers said.
Two people were attacked and robbed at a 7-Eleven near the Stratosphere and one of them may have been sexually assaulted early Friday.
A Chinese food delivery driver might have been lured to an area in the central Las Vegas valley before being attacked by five men Monday night.
The driver was making a food delivery about 8:20 p.m. near East Desert Inn Road and South Maryland Parkway when he was jumped by at least one person and hit in the head, police said.
The man is described as a white or Hispanic with a medium build wearing all black with gray or brown shoes. He was also wearing a straw hat and sunglasses.
Attempted robbery; shots fired; break-ins and $11,000 worth of computer equipment stolen: These crimes all recently struck the laid-back retirement community of Sun City Summerlin within a number of days.
Las Vegas police are asking for the public’s help to find a man who robbed a retail store near the downtown area.
A line of people, about 20 deep, extended from the open doors of the Galleria A meeting room into the hallway of the Luxor.
“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.”
Las Vegas police need the public’s help in locating a robbery suspect.
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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.
