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HENDERSON HOSPITAL

Police officers involved in shooting identified

The Henderson police officers involved in Wednesday morning's shooting at St. Rose Dominican Hospital, Siena campus were 37-year-old John Bozarth, a three-year veteran, and 36-year-old Randy Dotson, a four-year veteran of the department.

Bozarth and Dotson were responding to a call at the hospital about 1 a.m. by a nurse reporting a gun-wielding man. Officers arrived to find 48-year-old Charles Bradley Campbell in the emergency room with a gun, according to police.

Police said Campbell raised a gun at officers, and that's when they shot him. Police said he was suicidal.

The two officers have been placed on routine paid administrative leave pending a coroner's inquest into the shooting.

OUTSTANDING FINES

Warrants to be issued in traffic fine cases

Las Vegas Justice Court will begin issuing warrants to people with outstanding traffic fines starting Sunday.

Las Vegas Constable Bobby Gronauer said Friday that constables will start serving warrants for the 194,000 people with outstanding fines.

The announcement was made after the Justice Court offered a traffic ticket amnesty that waived penalties for outstanding fines, but not the fines themselves.

The warrant amnesty program lasted about three months. It brought in $5.4 million, according to the court.

Those with outstanding traffic fines should have been informed through the court that they needed to pay their fines.

For more information, call Justice Court at 702-671-3444 or toll free at 1-877-455-1289.

The traffic office is on the first floor of the Regional Justice Center, 200 Lewis Avenue.

TRAVELER'S INN

Coroner: Woman found dead at motel ID'd

The woman found dead in a room at the Traveler's Inn on Wednesday was strangled, the Clark County coroner's office has determined.

She has been identified as 44-year-old Teresa A. McCoy of Las Vegas.

Motel officials found the woman around 11:15 a.m. and called police to the second-floor motel room at 2855 Fremont, near Charleston Boulevard.

Homicide detectives are investigating.

Anybody with information is encouraged to call Crime Stoppers anonymously at 385-5555.

CALIFORNIA FACILITY

African elephant born at San Diego Zoo

An African elephant has been born at the San Diego Zoo's Wild Animal Park.

Zoo spokeswoman Yadira Galindo said the male calf born early Friday is doing great and is nursing frequently from his mother, Umngani (oom-GAH'-nee).

The calf, as yet unnamed, was born with 2-year-old big sister, Khosi (KOH'-see) nearby.

The park's African herd has produced six calves since it arrived from Swaziland in 2003. Zoo officials said five have survived.

The birth comes shortly after the death last month of the park's oldest elephant, Sunita, an Asian elephant who had lived there since 1974. She was euthanized after more than a year of failing health.

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