An inmate at the Clark County Detention Center died after he was found bleeding from the head in his cell Saturday, according to a Metro press release.
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Las Vegas police are responding to a Saturday night homicide at the Clark County Detention Center.
A woman is dead and a 45-year-old man is in custody after barricading himself in the backyard of his Summerlin home for hours Tuesday afternoon after a fatal shooting.
Police have arrested a man in connection with an early Saturday morning homicide of a woman inside a Henderson home.
A 34-year-old woman whose body was found buried in a remote area in northeast Nevada had been reported missing by her boyfriend more than three weeks ago.
A fluke and a little good fortune helped a homicide suspect escape North Las Vegas police custody Friday, officials explained Wednesday, the day after the suspect was recaptured.
Las Vegas homicide detectives considered 80 percent of their cases cleared by the end of 2015. Though Metro is trailing now, Lt. Dan McGrath said he expects a clearance rate of 75 percent by the end of this year. Valleywide, 60 percent of homicides have been cleared.
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.
Convicted in the death of a Las Vegas teen and breaking into tears, Michael Solid pleaded with jurors Thursday to allow him a chance at freedom.
Lawyers are expected to present closing arguments Tuesday in the murder trial of 24-year-old Michael Solid, accused in the death of a Las Vegas high school student who refused to give up his iPad.
Fifteen-year-old Marcos Vicente Arenas cherished his iPad, and carried it just about everywhere he went, listening to his favorite music through tethered earbuds. The Nevada Supreme Court will not stop cameras with a television show about the Clark County district attorney’s office from filming a murder trial this week.
A grand jury indicted a man accused of a triple murder and robbery on Wednesday.
Lawyers for a television show about the Clark County district attorney’s office said Tuesday that defense attorneys who want the show’s cameras banned from a murder trial made a “baseless” claim with the Nevada Supreme Court.
Defense lawyers who want to block Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson’s television show “Las Vegas Law” from filming a murder trial took their argument to the Nevada Supreme Court on Monday.
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