Coroner identifies man killed in Friday shooting
A North Las Vegas Police Crime Scene Investigations vehicle was parked near a house in the 500 block of East Riding Crop Avenue on Friday, April 17, 2015, as investigators work at the scene of a homicide. (Greg Haas/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Police were on the scene on Riding Crop Avenue in North Las Vegas near the intersection of North 5th Street and Tropical Parkway on Friday, April 17, 2015. (Greg Haas/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
A North Las Vegas Police Crime Scene Investigations vehicle was parked near a house in the 500 block of East Riding Crop Avenue on Friday, April 17, 2015, as investigators work at the scene of a homicide. (Greg Haas/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
The Clark County coroner’s office has identified the man killed Friday in a shooting in North Las Vegas.
He is Chazmen Le Dre Wilkins, 26, of West Covina, Calif., the coroner said.
North Las Vegas police found Wilkins dead in the 500 block of Riding Crop, near the intersection of Tropical Parkway and North 5th Street just before 6 p.m.
Police spokesman officer Aaron Patty said the shooting did not appear to be a “random act of violence.”
It was not immediately known if a arrests were made.
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