A public ombudsman speaking for the family of an Arizona man killed by a Highway Patrol trooper in October raised a serious question at a review hearing Monday: Why did police release the man, whom they suspected of committing serious crimes, early?
Shootings
Away from the crime scenes, the bodies and the blood, four scientists at the Metropolitan Police Department’s forensic laboratory are working around the clock to help solve crimes in bulk.
The person shot was taken to Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center with a gunshot wound not considered life-threatening, police said.
The man who turned the gun on himself after he may have attempted to kill a woman Thursday near downtown Las Vegas has been identified.
Police said an 18-year-old man, armed with a large knife, was fighting his father when his older brother shot him Friday afternoon inside a home in the northwest valley.
Las Vegas Police are investigating a Saturday morning shooting in the central valley that left one man critically injured.
Isaack Lorenzo Alamos, 20, of San Bernardino, California, was the man shot and killed during a robbery-home invasion in the northwest valley Monday night.
The Clark County coroner’s office identified the man shot and killed by his ex-girlfriend Wednesday afternoon in northwest Las Vegas as Adam Troy Dahl, 37, of Las Vegas.
The shooting happened just before 3 p.m. on the 10200 block of Yarmouth Sea Court, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.
Clark County prosecutors intend to seek capital punishment for a man accused of fatally shooting a man in January for sitting next to his date at a Las Vegas bar.
A young woman shot dead in the backyard of a vacant northwest home has been identified as 19-year-old Alyssa Sayago of Las Vegas.
A man died after what police say may have been an attempted murder-suicide Thursday in downtown Las Vegas
The shooting happened about 8 p.m. on the 6900 block of Issac Drive, near Lake Mead and Hollywood boulevards.
Metro police are investigating the fatal shooting as a domestic violence incident. The woman who shot him inside a northwest Las Vegas Valley home told police he was her ex-boyfriend.
A man was jailed Tuesday following a robbery-home invasion that resulted in the killing of an intruder in the far northwest Las Vegas Valley.