Police were investigating two separate homicides in Las Vegas on Sunday night.
Shootings
Police were called to the 500 block of East Sahara Avenue, near Paradise Road.
Two people charged in connection with a June homicide cleaned blood out of a car before attempting to set it on fire, police said.
The shooting early Thursday occurred as a resident of the apartment complex on the 5400 block of Mountain Vista Street was accosted as he returned from the gym, police said.
Officers were called at 11:30 a.m. Dec. 15 to the 1400 block of North 23rd Street, near Owens and Eastern avenues.
A couple charged in a fatal Thanksgiving shooting spree that began in Henderson and continued in Arizona had a brief court proceeding on Wednesday.
Las Vegas police were searching Wednesday for a woman seen in surveillance video reaching into her purse in the resort’s lobby, inadvertently causing a firearm to discharge.
Child protective services had received three claims of neglect since 2014 against the family of a 3-year-old boy fatally shot last week.
A man fired 19 shots at uniformed officers from a 9mm handgun, police said Tuesday, describing how one officer exchanged gunfire with the suspect in the central valley.
John Jaffey, the 3-year-old boy killed last week when his mother pulled the trigger of her handgun thinking it was unloaded, is remembered as a “fun, energetic, funny kid.”
A Las Vegas officer who exchanged gunfire with a suspect Saturday during an investigation in east Las Vegas has been identified.
Officers were notified by the Bullhead City Police Department of the victim at the hospital.
The shooting was the 19th incident that involved Metro officers firing their guns this year.
Las Vegas police have arrested a suspected shooter who exchanged gunfire with officers early Saturday.
A woman arrested after fatally shooting her 3-year-old son told police she was trying to remove the magazine when the gun went off.
