IN BRIEF

Police identify officer who fired at man

The Las Vegas police officer who shot a man in a cemetery Thursday night was 25-year-old Gregory Everett, a five-year veteran of the department, police said Sunday.

Police said someone called 911 at 11:38 p.m. Thursday to report a man with a gun near Sunset Road and Eastern Avenue. When officers arrived, they were directed by a citizen to the Davis Cemetery at 6200 S. Eastern Ave.

Officers found 37-year-old Joshua Santiago inside the cemetery grounds, just east of the wall along Eastern, pointing a pistol at his head, according to police.

Police described Santiago as a local resident.

When officers told him to put the gun down, he didn’t comply, police said. Santiago then pointed the gun at officers, and Everett fired, hitting him in the lower extremities.

Santiago was taken to a hospital and was expected to recover, police said.

He was arrested and will be booked into the Clark County Detention Center for assault with a deadly weapon on a police officer upon his release from the hospital, police said.

FLAMINGO ROAD FACILITY

Fire at animal hospital kills numerous pets

A fire tore through a Las Vegas pet hospital Saturday night, killing numerous animals housed inside, according to news reports.

The Paradise Pet Hospital, at 1060 E. Flamingo Road, near Maryland Parkway, caught on fire about 11 p.m.

The hospital also has boarding and grooming facilities, according to a sign outside the building.

The cause of the fire and the number of pets killed were not available because the Clark County Fire Department didn’t return calls seeking information.

On Sunday, the building appeared destroyed, with the windows blasted out and the ceiling caved in.

It was surrounded by a chain-link fence.

CRASH VICTIM DISCOVERED

LV man found dead near his motorcycle

A 50-year-old motorcyclist was discovered dead off the road along the eastbound lanes of Nevada Route 160 Sunday evening.

The Las Vegas man was found dead next to his motorcycle under a tree, not visible from the road, between mile markers 20 and 21 about 6 p.m., according to Nevada Highway Patrol trooper Kevin Honea.

Honea said the crash may have occurred the night before, according to the man’s friends, who discovered him. The cause of the crash had not been determined late Sunday.

The man’s name was not available.

STAR STUDENT KILLED

Slaying suspect may be illegal immigrant

A suspected Los Angeles gang member charged in the shooting death of a high school football star may have been in the country illegally, an immigration official said Saturday.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials will detain and investigate Pedro Espinoza, 19, for possible deportation once his murder charge has run its course, agency spokeswoman Virginia Kice said.

Espinoza was released from jail in an assault case the day before the March 2 killing of 17-year-old Jamiel Shaw Jr., a standout running back at Los Angeles High School, police said.

Kice said she did not know if ICE had placed an immigration hold on him during that jail term. But she said inmates on such holds are generally released directly into her agency’s custody.