Gunfire erupted about 4:45 p.m. Thursday on BLM-managed land near the Lake Mead National Recreation Area. One person was killed.
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.
Las Vegas police said they have made arrests in the May 30 shooting at a city pool in Summerlin, where more than 100 rounds were fired.
Police responded to the shooting shortly before 2 a.m. in the 3000 block of South Valley View Boulevard, near Pennwood Avenue.
The Clark County coroner’s office said on Monday that the North Las Vegas resident died from a gunshot wound to the chest.
The free, family-friendly showcase was part of the 30th annual K-9 Trials hosted over the weekend at South Point.
The two-hour forum was part of a series of March events hosted by the Clark County Black Caucus, the local branches of the NAACP and the American Civil Liberties Union.
Metro Lt. Raul Rodriguez, 47, spotted two men fighting in the 1500 block of North Main Street and intervened, police said.
Henderson authorities responded to the 700 block of Center Street early Wednesday and found a 5-year-old boy who was not breathing.
The officer tried using a baton to de-escalate, causing the man to continue to move toward him, pulling out something from his pocket and holding it “like a weapon.”
Three motorcycles were headed east on Cheyenne Avenue about 5:30 p.m. when the crash occurred on Cheyenne and Mary Dee avenues, near Interstate 15.
A woman slain late in a Las Vegas apartment shooting was identified La’Kia Lyshawn Dawkins, the Clark County coroner’s office said Monday.
Edward Romero-Cordero, who was arrested in November , faces one count each of murder and a drug-related count in connection to the death of 32-year-old Shane Bowman, who died eight months prior.
The crash was reported in the 4900 Camino Al Norte.
One of two people struck by a hit-and-run motorist, who drove on a downtown Las Vegas sidewalk they were sleeping on last week, has died.
A 24-year-old man died Monday afternoon after a single-vehicle crash in the west Las Vegas valley.