A mannequin, covered with blankets and positioned to resemble a homeless person sleeping on the sidewalk, was attacked with a hammer near downtown Las Vegas.
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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.
Jailed psychologist Gregory “Brent” Dennis, an admitted drug abuser, regularly obtained prescription painkillers from his own patients in the months before and after his wife’s 2015 death, a police report alleges.
The Clark County coroner’s office has identified the woman police say was killed in an accidental shooting in the central valley early New Year’s Day as 22-year-old Maryann Nabil Rosail of California.
A confrontation escalated Monday night and ended in the shooting death of one man in the northeast valley.
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.
A woman was booked on a murder charge Wednesday in the October death of her 2-year-old daughter at an apartment complex near McCarran International Airport.
By the end of June, police throughout the valley had responded to a total 103 homicides, up from 64 during the first six months of 2015. A Las Vegas Review-Journal analysis of those deaths showed that most victims were under the age of 40 and most suspects were under 30.
Medical examiners at the Clark County coroner’s office investigated 109 homicides between Jan. 1 and June 30, compared with 71 homicides during the same period last year. And it’s not just homicides that have increased; all deaths have.
The robbery trial of Bayzle Morgan, whose neo-Nazi tattoos were ordered concealed in front of jurors, was suspended Wednesday after prosecutors said they wanted the Nevada Supreme Court to clarify the wording for a verdict form.