IN BRIEF
NO ONE HURT IN INCIDENT
Las Vegas officer involved in shooting last week identified
A Las Vegas police officer who shot at a man after a chase outside an apartment complex near Lake Mead and Jones boulevards Tuesday morning has been identified as officer William Lee Majors.
No one was hit or injured during the incident.
Majors, who has been with Metropolitan Police Department since 2001 and is assigned to the Gang Crimes Bureau, fired his weapon at Jonathan Daniel Mimms, 22, after Mimms produced a handgun from his waistband and began running, police said.
Police had approached Mimms at the Silver Palms Apartments, 1951 N. Jones Blvd., to question him about an earlier Tuesday altercation that led to the shooting death of 16-year-old Jacquez Harris near Lake Mead and Arpa Way.
Mimms was arrested on charges of assault with a deadly weapon on a police officer and resisting a public officer with a weapon.
Another man, 18-year-old Bric Plasnyer, later confessed to shooting Harris, according to a Las Vegas police report.
Plasnyer was arrested on charges of murder with a deadly weapon and burglary with a deadly weapon.
Police on Tuesday said they believed Mimms might have been involved in the slaying, but didn't provide details.
JAILED IN ARIZONA
Missing baby's mom charged with kidnapping, child abuse
The Arizona mother at the center of a missing baby case has been charged with kidnapping, child abuse and custodial interference.
The Tempe Police Department said Sunday that 23-year-old Elizabeth Johnson is being held at the Maricopa County jail on the three felony charges after being extradited from Florida, where she was taken into custody Dec. 30 after failing to show up for a custodial hearing in Phoenix.
Police say she's being held on a cash only $1.1 million bond.
Authorities are trying to determine what happened to Johnson's 8-month-old son, Gabriel, who was last seen with her in San Antonio last month.
Authorities are calling a Scottsdale couple "persons of interest" in the case.
SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY
California boy, 3, dies after attack by his family's pit bull
Authorities say a 3-year-old boy has died after his family's pit bull attacked him at a home in Southern California
The San Bernardino County Sheriff-Coroner Department said in a statement Sunday that 3-year-old Omar Martinez was declared dead at Saint Mary Medical Center in Apple Valley.
Authorities answered a 911 call Saturday afternoon reporting that a boy had been attacked by a dog and had stopped breathing.
