But county commissioners saw it differently. In a ceremony during Tuesday’s commission meeting Commissioner Jim Gibson hung a medal around each officer’s neck.
Shootings
An off-duty Las Vegas policeman who was fatally shot while aiding victims of the Oct. 1 shooting was recognized by President Donald Trump on Tuesday during a memorial service for fallen peace officers.
Las Vegas police identified the officer who shot a shovel-wielding woman who was threatening neighbors Saturday night in the east valley.
A Clark County judge on Monday dismissed a lawsuit that the widow of an Oct. 1 victim filed against the Las Vegas Review-Journal over the release of her husband’s autopsy report.
The man who was fatally shot Saturday inside his Las Vegas apartment has been identified as Brandon Payton, 33.
An officer shot a woman who was armed with a shovel and threatening neighbors Saturday night in an east valley neighborhood, Las Vegas police said.
A man was shot at about 7:25 p.m. near 6255 W. Tropicana Ave., near South Jones Boulevard, according to Metropolitan Police Department Lt. Dustin Butler said.
A man was killed Saturday afternoon in a domestic-related shooting in the central Las Vegas Valley.
A state task force Friday moved closer to overhauling how Nevada tracks casino emergency response plans in the wake of the Oct. 1 mass shooting outside Mandalay Bay.
New “tactical paramedic” training for Las Vegas American Medical Response and MedicWest staff enables them to accompany SWAT teams to active shooter calls, hostage situations and high-risk warrant searches.
Police have interviewed the suspected gunman who shot Scott Anthony Hayse, 44, in the head Wednesday on the 1200 block of Melville Drive. Hayse’s death was ruled a homicide by the county coroner.
Two men are in custody after an east Las Vegas shootout that sent three people, including a 10-year-old girl, to the hospital .
Las Vegas gang detectives are asking for the public’s help in identifying suspects in an east valley parking lot shooting Tuesday afternoon.
The man, in his late 40s, was fatally shot after a fistfight with another man, in his early 20s, just before 12:10 p.m. on the 1200 block of Melville Drive, near Valley View and Charleston boulevards, Metropolitan Police Department homicide Lt. Ray Spencer said.
At least three people were hospitalized after a shootout in an eastern Las Vegas Valley parking lot Tuesday afternoon, police said.