The 45 fatalities investigated by the Metropolitan Police Department from Jan. 1 to April 15 was a 25 percent hike from the same time period in 2021, Metro figures show.
Ricardo Torres-Cortez
Local Government Reporter
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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.
Metropolitan Police Department Brian Boxler said the shooting occurred about 11:20 a.m. at 955 E. Twain Ave., near Cambridge Street.
Outage-tracking website Downdetector logged more than 1,600 reports in the valley.
A worker killed last month at a construction site in the northwest valley died from suffocation and mechanical asphyxia.
“There were disco lights at the time, but we didn’t see disco lights at all when the shooting (started),” Darshelle McMillan told the Review-Journal on Tuesday from her husband’s hospital room.
Emmanuel Beccles, 31, told a security officer who detained him after the Thursday attack that Jeff Durroh had “antagonized me on the bus,” police said.
A man who purposely struck a motorcyclist and then shot arrows at passing motorists told investigators that he had consumed methamphetamine and marijuana before the crash earlier this month, Henderson police allege in his arrest report released Monday.
A candidate for the Nevada Assembly is accused of robbing a bank with a handwritten note suggesting that she had a gun, according to a Metropolitan Police Department arrest report released Monday.
The 57-year-old man died from multiple stab wounds, the Clark County coroner’s office said Monday.
After a couple of tumultuous pandemic-era years, when the tradition was stymied by restrictions on houses of worship, believers across Southern Nevada returned Sunday to honor the “resurrection of Christ” at full capacity.
The crash was reported about 4:40 a.m. at North Hollywood Boulevard and Walnut Canyon Drive early on Sunday.
Jaedah Sherman was one of at least 46 people killed on Metro-patrolled roads in 2022, as of Thursday.
A musical disagreement between two bandmates erupted into a shooting in March that left one injured.
Nye County Capt. David Boruchowitz told the Review-Journal on Wednesday that the suspects had shot at a random person in California before the pursuit.
Police responded about 11:40 a.m. to Liberty Baptist Church in the 6500 block of West Lake Mead Boulevard.