Police coax dancing man with gun off roof of vacant store
July 26, 2017 - 3:47 am
Las Vegas police were able to coax a dancing man with a gun from the roof of a vacant grocery store Tuesday night.
An alarm company told police about 7:30 p.m. there was a man on the roof of 3864 W. Sahara Ave., near Valley View Boulevard, Metropolitan Police Department said.
A Metro helicopter spotted him “dancing, clapping his hands and acting erratically,” police said. Metro temporarily closed nearby roads while they spoke to him through a patrol car’s public address system.
He came down about 90 minutes later and was taken into custody.
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