Slain UNLV professors Naoko Takemaru, Patricia Navarro Velez and Cha-Jan “Jerry” Chang were each remembered fondly by their grief-stricken colleagues.
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More than a hundred people sat quietly inside St. Viator Catholic Community church for a community prayer honoring those affected by the shooting at UNLV.
The shooting occurred Oct. 20 in the 6600 block of Grand Stand Avenue in the north end of the valley near West Grand Teton Drive and North Rainbow Boulevard.
The three people killed in the shooting at UNLV’s Lee Business School, as well as a fourth victim who was seriously injured, were professors at the university.
Six years after a mass shooting killed dozens of people in Las Vegas, Nevada’s leaders expressed frustration and grief over Wednesday’s mass shooting at UNLV.
Three victims were shot and killed Wednesday on the UNLV campus in an attack that ended after the gunman’s death, authorities said.
The homeless man who was shot dead has been identified by the Clark County coroner’s office.
“I mean, he just showed up and shot us,” said Robert Tully, 62.
Two Nevada Highway Patrol troopers were struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver Thursday on northbound Interstate 15 near D Street. The driver was later arrested.
Clark County is asking for the public’s help as three other sets of skeletal remains found at Lake Mead in 2022 have since been identified.
The shooting occurred around 9:40 p.m. near Charleston Boulevard and Mojave Road.
Metropolitan Police Department Assistant Sheriff Sasha Larkin said officers showed “great humanity and restraint” during the fatal shooting in the southeast valley at a Tuesday news conference.
Robert Hoy, who was fatally shot Tuesday afternoon, was a computer system engineer that had done contract work with the CIA, according to his wife.
Reports detail allegations against four of eight teens arrested in the fatal mob beating of Jonathan Lewis Jr., a Rancho High School student.
Robert Hoy moved to Las Vegas to care for his daughter with autism, according to Bruce Moore, his longtime friend.