A 36-year-old man is in custody after a woman was bludgeoned to death with a sledgehammer in what Las Vegas police said was a random attack at a laundromat early Thursday.
Homicides
Two years after Anthony Williams was suspected of helping a fellow inmate stab another man to death in prison, he was freed without facing charges in the killing.
Rita Colon, accused in the 2016 killing of a former UNLV professor, now faces a second murder charge, this time in connection with her husband’s 2005 death.
A 28-year-old man has been charged with first-degree murder in the January death of a 3-year-old girl who suffered fatal injuries on Ely Shoshone tribal land.
Las Vegas police have located the van they believe a shooter was driving during a road rage incident that turned fatal earlier this month on Interstate 15.
Samantha Colburn spent six years trying to find her father in Las Vegas and rekindle their relationship — but that search ended when he was fatally shot Monday.
All six shots fired by SWAT officers at an attempted robbery suspect who pointed a weapon at police following an hourslong standoff struck the suspect, police said Thursday.
A victim who was shot and killed late Monday in a central Las Vegas neighborhood as he ran from a robber was a 59-year-old man, the Clark County coroner’s office said.
After 33 years on Nevada’s death row, Paul Browning was released Wednesday morning from Ely State Prison.
Prosecutors have charged 23 people tied to a violent white supremacist Nevada prison gang with more than 150 counts, including murder, robbery and drug trafficking.
He was Michael Lopez of Lake Havasu City, Arizona, which is about 70 miles south of Laughlin, the coroner’s office said Wednesday afternoon.
At 7:23 p.m. on Aug. 5, a California man checked into Las Vegas on Facebook. Within about 15 minutes, police suspect he was shot multiple times in a road rage incident.
A 20-year-old woman faces a murder charge in the shooting death of her roommate in the southwest valley, Las Vegas police said.
Ralph Goad faces up to life in prison without the possibility of parole at his Oct. 2 sentencing in the death of 76-year-old Theodore Gibson in his Reno apartment.
The victim was gunned down as he ran from a parked vehicle on the 3300 block of Thom Boulevard, near Rancho Drive and West Cheyenne Avenue.