Las Vegas police identify officer, man involved in fatal shooting in Jean
The Metropolitan Police Department on Monday released the identities of a knife-wielding nude man and the police officer who shot him over the weekend at a Jean hotel-casino.
The shooting happened Saturday morning in the southeast parking lot of the Gold Strike, about 30 miles south of Las Vegas, Metro Capt. John McGrath said.
The man has been identified as 50-year-old Paul Carr Palmer III of Sedona, Arizona.
Officer Peter Bicsanszky responded to the hotel-casino just after 9:30 a.m. after numerous reports of the nude man in the Gold Strike’s pool area, Metro said in a statement.
Palmer didn’t comply with police commands, the statement said, so Bicsanszky fired four beanbag rounds at him, McGrath said. Palmer then charged toward Bicsanszky, who fired two shots from handgun at Palmer.
Clark County Fire Department personnel unsuccessfully rendered aid to Palmer.
Bicsanszky has been a Metro officer since July 1998. He has been placed on paid administrative leave pending a review of the shooting.
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