WEEK IN REVIEW: Top news

A blast of gunfire from a black Range Rover sent a luxury sports car careening through the valley’s busiest intersection, triggering a fiery collision that lit the pre-dawn dark Thursday morning.

The shooting and crash left three people dead and shut down Las Vegas Boulevard at Flamingo Road for 15 hours.

Kenny Cherry, a 27-year-old aspiring rapper who called himself “Kenny Clutch,” was shot dead behind the wheel of the two-door Maserati he can be seen rapping about in several YouTube videos.

His car hit a taxi cab that exploded into flames on Nevada’s most important street, killing cabdriver Michael Boldon, 62, and Boldon’s passenger, 48-year-old Sandra Sutton-Wasmund, of Maple Valley, Wash.

Police said Saturday that Ammar Harris, 26, fired the shots. A multistate manhunt was under way for him and other suspects in the Range Rover, which was recovered Saturday. And authorities are being forced to answer the question: Is the Strip safe?

Monday

Guns on campus

Assemblywoman Michele Fiore, R-Las Vegas, introduced a bill authorizing students and others with the proper permits to bring their guns onto college campuses in Nevada.

Assembly Bill 143 includes a prohibition, however, on the carrying of weapons at any event at an arena or other athletic facility with a seating capacity of 1,000 or more.

Tuesday

FBI, fugitive Trade fire

An FBI agent and the fugitive he was chasing exchanged gunfire in a northeast valley neighborhood, leaving the agent wounded and the wanted man dead.

Javier Reyes, 32, had been on the run for the past two months after he was accused of hitting his ex-girlfriend, threatening her with a handgun and robbing her.

Police located Reyes in another valley neighborhood on Feb. 7, but he outran officers, broke into a home, held a 73-year-old man at gunpoint and stole his car.

The FBI said the agent, whose name was not released, was wearing a protective vest and was not badly hurt.

Reyes was taken to the hospital, where he died.

Wednesday

‘Rare opportunity’

A 477-acre tract in Henderson was listed as a “rare opportunity” in a land broker’s email blast to the Las Vegas real estate community last week, but the “exclusive” listing doesn’t explain how truly unique the land is.

The Land Advisors Organization company fired off the email, even though the property is tangled up in a federal investigation and being marketed by Chris Milam, a developer accused of defrauding the city to get the site, which he doesn’t exactly own yet.

Thursday

Nevada first online

Nevada became the first state in the nation to authorize interactive gaming when Gov. Brian Sandoval signed the measure into law during a ceremony held in the same room at the Capitol where casino gambling was legalized more than 80 years ago.

His signature capped a flurry of activity on the bill, starting with a joint committee hearing and later unanimous votes in the Assembly and state Senate on the same day.

Friday

Constable in the clear

Embattled Las Vegas Constable John Bonaventura will not face drunken driving charges, Clark County’s top prosecutor said.

District Attorney Steve Wolfson said there wasn’t enough evidence to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt for Bonaventura, who was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving Feb. 12.

Wolfson said Bonaventura was not legally drunk in the only test that would be admissible in court. The investigation also showed Nevada Highway Patrol officers might have pulled over the wrong constable’s vehicle.