IN BRIEF
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
Woman stabbed to death; man arrested
A 54-year-old woman was fatally stabbed late Wednesday night by a man police believe was her boyfriend.
Las Vegas police were called at 11 p.m. to the Casa Salvatore Apartments, at 5001 El Parque Ave., near Sahara Avenue and Decatur Boulevard, in reference to a violent domestic disturbance.
When officers arrived at the apartment they found the woman, who was not identified, dead from multiple stab wounds.
Brian Kerry O'Keefe, 45, was also in the apartment and was arrested after a brief struggle, according to police.
He was taken into custody and booked into the Clark County Detention Center without bail on a charge of murder with a deadly weapon.
Court records show O'Keefe was found guilty of battery and battery domestic violence in 2006, serving two years in prison on the charges.
GUNNED DOWN
20-year-old shooting victim identified
A woman gunned down in an industrial area near Valley View Boulevard and Harmon Avenue on Oct. 25 has been identified as 20-year-old Shanta Renee Eddings of Las Vegas.
Eddings called police at 8:25 a.m. saying she had been shot in an empty lot just north of 4620 S. Valley View.
When authorities arrived they found her dead from a gunshot wound to the chest.
Anybody with information on the shooting is asked to call the homicide section at 828-3521 or Crime Stoppers at 385-5555.
NEW RESPONSIBILITIES
Elliott new judge for adult drug court
Family Court Judge Jennifer Elliott has been appointed to serve as the adult drug court judge.
Elliott, appointed by Chief District Judge Kathy Hardcastle, will continue to work as a Family Court judge. She begins her new responsibilities Nov. 12.
She will oversee the Adult Criminal Drug Court, Prison Re-Entry Drug Court and Dependency Mother's Drug Court.
The drug court program is a sentencing option for defendants with drug problems. Defendants accepted into the program attend counseling and weekly court sessions for at least a year.
More than 600 people are enrolled in the Adult Criminal Drug Court.
Elliott has been an attorney in Nevada since 1986 and is a licensed marriage and family therapist. She took the bench in 2002.
SECOND-DEGREE MURDER
23-year-old man faces drug-related charges
Elko police have arrested a 23-year-old Ely man on second-degree murder charges involving a woman who died in June of a drug overdose.
In an affidavit, police said Joshua Winton sold 18-year-old Jennifer Williams methadone, oxycodone and at least one other prescription drug in the days before her death June 25.
Williams' body was found on her bedroom floor by her mother.
Authorities said an autopsy showed she had several drugs in her system and died of an overdose.
Police said some of Williams' family and friends said she was addicted to prescription drugs, which could have been obtained from them.
