The scheduled release from prison of a woman convicted of killing her millionaire husband in Las Vegas a quarter century ago is on hold.
Homicides
California officials have not yet determined an official cause of death for a woman who died more than two years after she was shot and paralyzed in the mass shooting on the Las Vegas Strip.
Octavia Carter, 40, accused of stabbing her husband to death in front of their children is expected to undergo a competency evaluation.
A woman has been arrested on a murder charge stemming from a robbery and slaying last year on New Year’s Eve.
A 44-year-old Army veteran and Henderson resident charged with murder told police he shot at two teenagers who were firing a weapon behind his house because he was afraid, according to an arrest report.
One resident was accidentally shot by another in the confusion of an attempted robbery that led to a suspected robber’s death in the northeast Las Vegas Valley early Monday, police said.
The first court appearance for a woman accused of stabbing her husband to death in front of their children over the weekend was postponed after she refused to attend.
The Clark County coroner’s office has identified the 17-year-old boy who was found shot to death last week behind a commercial property on Sunset Road.
“Mommy was squeezing daddy very tight and stabbed daddy,” the oldest of the couple’s children told paramedics who responded to the 911 call on Saturday.
One man was killed and a second was critically injured in a shooting in northeast Las Vegas early Monday.
Jail records identified the 40-year-old woman accused of stabbing her husband to death in front of three children Saturday at an extended-stay hotel near the Strip.
A 40-year-old woman stabbed her husband multiple times, Metro homicide Lt. Ray Spencer said. Three young children were present, but uninjured.
Henderson police arrested a 44-year-old man on a murder charge Thursday in the shooting death of a 17-year-old.
Jaime Zuniga, 34, was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday for the murder of Edward Turner during a 2015 robbery.
A woman accused of killing her ex-girlfriend’s new boyfriend early Saturday in Las Vegas in a frenzied attack maintains she didn’t stab him.