The city’s first officer-involved shooting of the year occurred after a 24-minute chase that spanned several miles in the northwestern portion of the city, police said Tuesday.
Shootings
A 93-year-old man who shot an apartment complex maintenance worker last week, leading to Las Vegas police gunfire, was apparently upset over water damage and flooding in his unit.
A woman who was leaving her apartment to buy diapers for her baby was shot in central Las Vegas Monday morning.
Stanely Thomas, 31, was booked into the Clark County Detention Center on Dec. 28 after he had been arrested in Los Angeles in connection with the October killing of 27-year-old Kaycha Pratt.
North Las Vegas police on Saturday identified two officers who shot and killed a man early Thursday after he led them on a car chase throughout the city.
The victim sustained an apparent gunshot wound “but is not sure exactly where it occurred,” Metro Lt. Jose Hernandez said, adding the injuries do not appear to be life-threatening.
The Metropolitan Police Department on Saturday identified the officer who shot at a 93-year-old man Thursday in the west valley. The officer is Ronald Hornyak, 45.
The Clark County coroner’s office on Friday identified the man shot and killed by North Las Vegas police early Thursday as Jamarri Daiwon Tarver.
Robert Thomas was booked into the Clark County Detention Center Thursday on weapon charges and counts of first-degree kidnapping and attempted murder.
A January 2010 shootout at the federal courthouse in Las Vegas left court security officer Stanley Cooper dead.
Two men were killed about a week apart in late 2019 in unrelated and previously unreported shootings that Las Vegas police believe were both cases of self-defense.
Metro police officers were involved in a shooting about 9:10 a.m. Thursday at an apartment complex in the west valley.
A man is dead after he was shot by two North Las Vegas police officers while fleeing in a reported stolen vehicle early Thursday.
Officers responded to the 200 block of 11th Street just after 7 p.m. for a call reporting an assault after neighbors got into a fight with a man they said was a suspicious person.
Las Vegas police are investigating after a boy showed up at Sunrise hospital with a gunshot wound to his leg on Monday afternoon.
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