A Las Vegas filmmaker, who was killed in a random shooting at a convenience store, was remembered by a close friend as a “goofy individual” with a strong work ethic.
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 owner of Lee’s Liquors was killed in a car crash on Friday near West Wendover, three months after his father’s death.
A pedestrian was killed and a motorist was jailed on suspicion of DUI following an early Saturday crash east of the Strip.
A man was fatally shot in a North Las Vegas neighborhood late Friday.
It took Las Vegas Fire Department crews about six hours to put out a blaze Friday at a vacant clubhouse in the far northwest valley.
New cases of COVID-19 dropped from the preceding week, but hospitalizations, deaths and test positivity rate all climbed, an analysis of state and local date indicates.
“Thankfully no one was hurt,” police spokesman Alex Cuevas said of the 3:45 a.m. Friday crash into a Dotty’s bar on the 2500 block of Las Vegas Boulevard North.
Relatives of a woman who died when she was intentionally knocked off her bicycle expressed anger Thursday after a man involved in the crash did not show up to his sentencing hearing.
A suspect in a series of Las Vegas Valley heists told Las Vegas police detectives that he “used so many measures” to avoid getting caught.
The Nye County Sheriff’s Office announced it was referring the district attorney to the State Bar of Nevada and the state Ethics Commission.
A suspect has been arrested in the 2016 point-blank slaying of a man inside his car in central Las Vegas, according to Metropolitan Police Department records.
Dozens of dogs, some barking, panting and tugging at their clinking leashes, walked with their owners Saturday morning at Town Square Las Vegas.
New cases and test positivity rate register double-digit percentage gains while 100 more COVID-19 patients are in county hospital beds compared to two weeks ago.
Las Vegas police arrest report says tape shows suspect using long pole or piece of metal to strike down the victim and a male companion who was badly injured.
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.