IN BRIEF

DECEMBER SHOOTING

Suspect indicted on murder charges

A 26-year-old man was indicted this week in the slaying of a man in December.

The Clark County grand jury indicted Jesus Jaramillo on charges of murder with a deadly weapon, robbery with a deadly weapon, grand larceny and burglary.

He was charged in the Dec. 30 fatal shooting of Abraham Harely, 30, in a house on the 8000 block of Wards Ferry Street, near Decatur Boulevard and state Route 160.

Jaramillo and several others had stayed at Harely's house for several days before the shooting. Jaramillo believed Harely had sexually assaulted a woman, authorities said.

Jaramillo has been in the Clark County Detention Center since his Feb. 19 arrest. Prosecutors intend to seek the death penalty.

SWAT OFFICERS RESPOND

Arizona couple found shot to death in home

A husband and wife were found shot to death Tuesday in their Kingman, Ariz., home.

John Timothy Hett, 49, called 911 dispatchers about 2 p.m. and said he had shot and killed his wife, Valery, 45, police Sgt. Rusty Cooper said.

Police tried to contact John Hett inside his house on the 2400 block of Chambers Avenue. After more than five hours, a SWAT team entered the house and found both bodies on a bedroom floor.

A semi-automatic handgun was at the scene.

CIMARRON-MEMORIAL HIGH

Teenager accused of taking gun to school

A 16-year-old boy was arrested Wednesday morning after taking an unloaded .357-caliber handgun to Cimarron-Memorial High School, Clark County School District police said.

The teen was charged with possessing an unregistered firearm, possessing a dangerous weapon on school property, carrying a concealed weapon and possession of a firearm by a minor.

Police arrested him after getting a tip about him having the gun on the campus at 2301 N. Tenaya Way, near Lake Mead Boulevard, said Capt. James Ketsaa.

The teen was booked into the Clark County Juvenile Detention Center. Police did not release his name.