Armed man shot in leg by officer

A Las Vegas police officer shot a man in the leg Sunday morning after he rammed his car into a police cruiser, fled and pointed a gun at police, authorities said.

Police said the suspect, Robert Canfield, was in stable condition Sunday afternoon.

A resident of a condominium complex at 5110 S. Jones Boulevard near Tropicana Avenue called the police about 7:20 a.m. to report that a man was asleep in a car with a gun on his lap, police said.

After officers arrived at the complex and awakened Canfield, he tried to drive away, said officer Martin Wright, a spokesman for the Las Vegas police.

A man who lives in the complex said he was awakened Sunday morning by a female police officer on a bullhorn or patrol car's loudspeaker who was ordering someone to "get out of the car and get on the ground now!"

The neighbor said he then heard the whirring of an engine and the sound of one vehicle slamming into another.

Police said Canfield struck a police cruiser and several other vehicles in the complex before he came to a stop.

Canfield then ran to the nearby Foothill Village Apartments, on the corner of Jones and Tropicana.

Canfield, who was armed with a revolver, held the gun to his own head near a pool area at the apartment complex when officers confronted him, Wright said.

When Canfield motioned the gun toward the officers, one of them shot Canfield in the leg, Wright said.

Nineteen-year-old Cristal Quellar, a resident of the Foothill Village Apartments, said a gunshot woke her up about 8 a.m. She said she looked outside and saw a man she knew as "Bobby" on the ground, his leg bloodied and a handful of officers on him.

She said he is a friend of hers. She said he lived in the area of Jones and Tropicana, but she hadn't seen him for about a month.

"He's a real nice guy," Quellar said.

It was the fourth officer-involved shooting this year for the Metropolitan Police Department. The other three were fatal.