A Clark County prosecutor said Friday that a Colorado man shot by authorities off the scenic loop a day earlier was driving “erratically” to catch law enforcement’s attention.
Ricardo Torres-Cortez
Local Government Reporter
Email: rtorres@reviewjournal.com
Ricardo Torres-Cortez covers the city of Las Vegas and Clark County. He returned to the Review-Journal, where he’d interned, after a five-year stint at the Las Vegas Sun newspaper. A Mexican-born graduate of UNLV, he’s passionate about soccer, video games, books and coffee.
The two-hour event proceeded without a hitch under balmy conditions in front of hundreds of spectators who lined Fourth Street and waved some of the 10,000 American flags organizers had passed out.
Jesus Javier Uribe, 22, is accused of firing approximately 20 rounds inside the Short Line Express Market, 7730 Jones Blvd., before stealing beer and wine and walking away.
A woman is facing counts of murder and attempted murder in an “unprovoked” attack on two people in central Las Vegas, the Metropolitan Police Department said.
The parade is scheduled to start at 10 a.m. Thursday at Fourth Street and Gass Avenue and end a mile to the north at Stewart Avenue.
Police say Julian Gonzalez, a 26-year-old Las Vegas resident, ran a stop sign while southbound on Peter Buol Drive on Thursday and hit a Dodge Ram in the intersection.
The Southern Nevada Bicycle Coalition this week launched the “Let’s Get There Together” campaign that aims to reduce traffic fatalities.
A fight between two men ended when one of them stabbed the other to death Friday evening in an east Las Vegas field, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.
Las Vegas police were searching for an “endangered” elderly man who vanished early Saturday in the south valley.
The Clark County coroner’s office has identified one of two women killed Thursday morning in a Henderson house fire.
A pedestrian who died Thursday afternoon after being struck by a school bus in central Las Vegas has been identified as a 65-year-old Las Vegas woman.
The suspect in a random shooting at a southwest Las Vegas convenience store early Thursday is Jesus Javier Uribe, police records show. A man was killed in the shooting.
About a month before Raiders wide receiver Henry Ruggs was involved in a fatal crash, one of his teammates was sued by a woman who claims she was injured in a hit-and-run crash.
Two women are dead following a house fire Thursday morning in a Henderson neighborhood, according to city officials.
Police say the man randomly killed a man outside a southwest Las Vegas convenience store and then sprayed the store with additional gunfire early Thursday.
