IN BRIEF

JANUARY 2008 SHOOTING

Man, 21, gets life for killing pregnant teen

A 21-year-old man accused of killing a pregnant teenager was sentenced to spend life in prison with the possibility of parole after 25 years.

District Judge Stefany Miley sentenced Omar Rodriguez in the killing of 16-year-old Katherine Jimenez, who was five-months pregnant. Rodriguez shot Jimenez in the head at a residence on the 1600 block of Sahara Avenue, near Maryland Parkway, in January 2008.

Rodriguez pleaded guilty to first-degree murder with a deadly weapon in December. He also was charged with killing an unborn child, but that count was dropped. Authorities think Rodriguez might have been the father. POSSIBLY GANG-RELATED

Man killed in shooting ID'd as 28-year-old

The man killed in a shooting last week in the 4500 block of East Lake Mead Boulevard near Lamb Boulevard has been identified as Joe Armando Castillo.

The 28-year-old died of multiple gunshot wounds in what has been ruled a homicide. Two others were wounded.

Las Vegas police were still searching for a suspect as of Wednesday. Police said that they didn't know a motive but that it appeared the shooting was gang-related.

NEAR UNLV

Police discover man shot to death in alley

A man was shot and killed Wednesday night in an alley near the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Las Vegas police said they were called to the 5100 block of Golden Lane, near Tropicana Avenue and Maryland Parkway, for a 7:17 p.m. report of shots fired. They arrived to find a male dead from multiple gunshot wounds.

Anyone with information on the shooting is urged to call Crime Stoppers anonymously at 385-5555.

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BIRTH

Octuplets doing well, breathing on own

The octuplets born Monday in Bellflower, Calif., were all breathing on their own Wednesday. Two were receiving supplemental oxygen but were inhaling and exhaling on their own.

"They're doing amazingly well," said Socorro Serrano, spokeswoman for Kaiser Permanente's Bellflower Medical Center.

The mother, whose identity remained a secret, had not yet been able to hold the babies, six boys and two girls, but she was able to see them in their incubators Tuesday night.