A memorial service honoring one of two Nevada Highway Patrol troopers killed by a hit-and-run driver on Interstate 15 was held Friday in Henderson.
Jeff Burbank
Former Breaking News Reporter
A veterans memorial cemetery in Boulder City at first accepted, then rejected family’s bid to have father, mother buried there.
“I mean, he just showed up and shot us,” said Robert Tully, 62.
A woman crossing Desert Inn Road near Eastern Avenue was hit by a car early Saturday.
Colin Andrew Shapard, 22, faced charges in federal district court.
Two Nevada Highway Patrol troopers were struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver Thursday on northbound Interstate 15 near D Street. The driver was later arrested.
The one-time police employee told police that Robert Hoy, 69, “parked his vehicle directly behind his” and came out of the vehicle carrying a gun in the parking lot of the mall.
Metropolitan Police Department Assistant Sheriff Sasha Larkin said officers showed “great humanity and restraint” during the fatal shooting in the southeast valley at a Tuesday news conference.
The woman was arrested during the final race of the Formula One Las Vegas Grand Prix while carrying allegedly fake VIP passes worth $50,000, police said.
It’s the seventh police shooting in Metro’s jurisdiction of 2023, police said.
The alleged victim said that over two days, the man beat her, “set her hair on fire,” sexually assaulted her and “used his cell phone to record her,” according to police.
Robert Hoy moved to Las Vegas to care for his daughter with autism, according to Bruce Moore, his longtime friend.
Two teachers, each facing misdemeanor charges of disturbing the peace, appeared before judges and had their trial dates set.
One person was detained after a man was shot and killed Tuesday afternoon within a large shopping complex in southwest Las Vegas, police said.
A 54-year-old man died after suffering a gunshot wound Monday night in the Lake Las Vegas community in Henderson, police said.