IN BRIEF

VICTIM DIED SUNDAY

Police seek suspect in beating death

Las Vegas police are seeking a suspect in the beating of an unidentified man who died of his injuries Sunday.

The man died at Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center after being listed in critical condition with a brain injury.

He was found early Friday, near 1055 Tropicana Ave., unconscious and without identification. The victim is described as 5 feet 10 inches tall, white and between 50 and 60 years old. He was wearing a white button-up shirt, white pants, black belt and gray athletic shoes when officers found him.

Las Vegas police spokeswoman Officer Barbara Morgan said investigators are treating the man's death as a homicide.

Anyone with information on the victim or suspect is asked to contact Las Vegas police at 828-3111 or Crime Stoppers at 385-5555.

KNIFE-WIELDING MAN ARRESTED

LV police officers who shot suspect identified

Two Las Vegas police officers involved in the April 21 shooting of a knife-wielding man have been identified as officers John Abel and Brian Debecker.

Police were called to a home at the 9500 block of Knotweed Avenue, near Fort Apache Road and Patrick Lane, by neighbors who said 30-year-old Marcus Jackson was armed with a hunting knife.

Las Vegas police said Jackson moved toward the officers in an "aggressive manner" and they fired several rounds, fearing for their own safety and that of a woman inside the home.

Jackson was wounded and arrested on charges of attempted murder on a police officer and resisting a police officer.

Abel has been with the Metropolitan Police Department since January 2007. Debecker joined Las Vegas police in September 1990. Both men were placed on routine paid administrative leave until the completion of an internal investigation.

BOYFRIEND ARRESTED

Coroner's office IDs slaying victim

The 38-year-old woman stabbed to death late Friday in her home in the 4300 block of El Cebra Way has been identified by the Clark County coroner's office as Patricia McCreery.

The Las Vegas woman died of multiple stab wounds.

McCreery's boyfriend, Clayton Lavell Wrencher, was arrested Saturday in connection with the slaying and booked into the Clark County Detention Center on a charge of murder with a deadly weapon.

McCreery was pronounced dead at Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center. Las Vegas police said the couple apparently argued after deciding to separate after 16 years together.

COLLIDED WITH LAND ROVER

Motorcyclist who died in crash identified

The 34-year-old man who died Sunday when his motorcycle struck a car on Lovell Summit Road has been identified by the Clark County coroner's office as Ricky Hartwick.

The Las Vegan was riding a 2001 Honda XR motorcycle east on Lovell Summit Road around 4:04 p.m. when the crash occurred.

Hartwick and the driver of a 1997 Land Rover Defender collided at a curve in the dirt road. He was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident.