Shadow Ridge senior Tiris Coleman Jr. was slated to graduate this year and had offers to play college ball, his mom said. But it was all cut short Sunday — just weeks before his 18th birthday.
Shootings
The shooting death of a 17-year-old boy Sunday evening at a basketball court marks the fourth known death of a Shadow Ridge High School student since August.
Las Vegas police found Jared Medina’s body on Jan. 5 on West Lake Mead Boulevard. First responders did not notice any signs of trauma, but an autopsy the next day showed he had been shot in the back.
The man who was injured in a west valley shooting Wednesday night died the following day, police said.
A 17-year-old and his mother pleaded not guilty Thursday to criminal charges in the fatal shooting of former Chaparral High School football player Richard Nelson.
One person is in critical condition after a shooting Wednesday night near Valley View Boulevard and Penwood Avenue.
Reginald Durwan Carr, 45, died from multiple gunshot wounds when gunman fired into home on the 700 block of Dolores Drive.
A man wanted in the killing of a 39-year-old Las Vegas woman was jailed Wednesday.
The mother of a 17-year-old accused in the shooting that killed former Chaparral High School football player Richard Nelson was indicted Thursday.
Charges against a man arrested in connection with the robbery and shooting of a pizza deliveryman have been dropped.
A man accused of robbing the South Point sports book on Super Bowl Sunday also faces an attempted murder charge in connection with a robbery just days earlier.
Two people sitting in the back of a car were shot in the northeast valley Sunday night. Both were expected to survive their injuries.
The man found burned and dismembered in a desert lot in December was killed over a complicated love triangle, according to arrest reports obtained Friday by the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
A 17-year-old accused in the shooting that killed former Chaparral High School football player Richard Nelson was indicted Thursday in the murder case.
According to an arrest report, the photo shows the suspect near the scene of the November crime, loading a gun with bullets similar to those used in the fatal shooting.
Three people were arrested Monday after the shooting of a pizza deliveryman in the northeast valley on Sunday.
A man wanted in connection with the Nov. 23 shooting outside a Goodwill store on West Craig Road has been arrested on an assault charge.