Talking to police moments after learning his 15-year-old daughter Alexus was fatally shot, William Postorino didn’t want to believe that a man he had considered a friend for more than 30 years could be the killer.
Shootings
“Everybody’s concerned,” said Metro homicide Lt. Dan McGrath while on the scene of Fabriccio Patti’s shooting Friday. “And it should be not just the police’s concern — it’s the whole community’s concern, that we have a rise in violence, specifically gun violence.”
Police have not yet established a motive for the killing of Michael Tzaras, 46, north of downtown.
A teen was fatally shot by a smoke shop employee Friday night after he and two other youths entered the southwest valley store wearing masks, likely intending to rob the business, police said.
The man who said he shot and killed his son Tuesday night told police he didn’t remember moments leading up to shooting and is unsure if the person he killed was his real son, according to the arrest report.
Las Vegas police are investigating a fatal shooting that happened Wednesday night just north of downtown Las Vegas. The shooting is believed to be drug-related.
Authorities linked 23-year-old Shane Valentine to a shooting incident at a woman’s home after finding her son and his girlfriend dead inside a southwest valley apartment less than a month later.
Las Vegas police have identified a suspect wanted in connection with a northeast valley shooting Nov. 10 that left a man in critical condition.
Police arrested Michael Gardenhire, 49, on a murder charge after his adult son was found dead in an apartment in the southwest valley.
Las Vegas police said a 50-year-old man shot and killed his son late Tuesday at a southwest valley apartment complex.
A woman arrested after a homicide near downtown Las Vegas on Friday may have tried to clean up blood from the shooting before officers arrived, a police arrest report said.
Police haven’t determined who pulled the trigger, but investigators believe it may have been one of Honesty Townsend’s three siblings.
Porchay Banks, 24, is being held at the Clark County Detention Center and faces one count of accessory to murder in connection with a Friday afternoon shooting that left a man dead at an apartment complex on the 2000 block of Sunrise Avenue.
The shooting happened at an apartment complex on the 5300 block of East Craig Road.
The man, described as a Hispanic male in his 30s, was shot just after 1 p.m. in a Sunrise Avenue apartment, near Fremont Street and Eastern Avenue, the Metropolitan Police Department said.
Several suspects have been arrested Wednesday morning in connection with a barricade situation Tuesday near Fremont and Bruce streets. Metro police were not able to confirm Wednesday if barricade suspect David Encinas was included among those arrested
The man who escaped North Las Vegas police custody in September, and was recaptured four days later, has now been linked to two additional August homicides, ballistics testing shows.