A man died after being shot Wednesday afternoon, Las Vegas police said. Police spokeswoman Laura Meltzer said at 2:48 p.m. investigators were alerted the man who was shot collapsed inside an apartment at the 4800 block of Spencer Street, near Tropicana Avenue.
Two civil rights groups are calling for the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the Metropolitan Police Department’s use of deadly force in the wake of the fatal shooting of an unarmed veteran and a Las Vegas Review-Journal investigation into police shootings.
In what may be a first in Las Vegas, the financially struggling Las Vegas Hilton will be run, at least for now, as a split operation.
A 10-year-old boy who died in a shooting inside a southwest valley home Tuesday afternoon found the weapon and shot himself, Las Vegas police said Wednesday.
