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Police think Las Vegas street robbery led to man being shot

By / Las Vegas Review-Journal
May 18, 2018 - 3:22 am
 
Police blocked off a portion of Lorenzi Street, near Alta Drive and Rainbow Boulevard during an investigation of an early Friday morning shooting. (Max Michor/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Police blocked off a portion of Lorenzi Street, near Alta Drive and Rainbow Boulevard during an investigation of an early Friday morning shooting. (Max Michor/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

Las Vegas police are investigating a central Las Vegas shooting early Friday morning after a man showed up at a hospital with two gunshot wounds to the back.

Metropolitan Police Department Lt. Peter Kisfalvi said University Medical Center personnel notified police about 12:50 a.m. after the man was brought in. He is expected to survive.

The circumstances surrounding the shooting are still unclear. Kisfalvi said the shooting might have been the result of a street robbery.

About 2 a.m. Friday officers blocked off a portion of Lorenzi Street, near Alta Drive and Rainbow Boulevard, as investigators photographed the sidewalk outside an apartment complex.

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