Krystal Whipple, charged in the killing of a Las Vegas nail salon manager over a $35 manicure, is expected to return to Nevada to face a murder charge.
Homicides
The Clark County coroner’s office has identified Jonathon Louis Burgos, 36, as the man who was shot and killed in a dispute on Thursday in the central valley.
“I hit the step just right, and it broke my leg,” Las Vegas police officer Samuel Wittwer said in a recent interview about the night of Oct. 1, 2017.
More than 100 friends and family gathered Saturday to remember 18-year-old Kwavon’tia Gregory Thomas of Las Vegas, who was fatally shot in North Las Vegas on Christmas Eve.
Krystal Whipple, the sole suspect in the killing of a nail salon manager over a $35 manicure, was arrested early Friday in Arizona.
Kayla Biron, 25, is suspected of opening fire with a shotgun during an argument with a man about 3:35 p.m. Thursday in an alleyway at 217 W. New York Ave., between Industrial Road and Fairfield Avenue, police said.
The woman suspected of killing a Las Vegas nail salon employee in December was identified after she purchased a vehicle engine the same day, according to her arrest warrant.
After an arrest was made in the fatal shooting of 16-year-old Aneas David King in North Las Vegas, a candlelight vigil for the boy ended in yelling and heated emotions Thursday night.
The April death of a 76-year-old man after an altercation in Henderson was ruled a homicide, pushing the total last year in the city to 17, the Review-Journal has learned.
A 16-year-old boy was fatally shot in North Las Vegas on Wednesday evening, marking the city police department’s first homicide investigation this year.
They were recognized for their actions on June 24, 2017, when a neighbor called officers about 9:40 p.m. and reported that a woman came to his house on the 6500 block of Assembly Drive, near Torrey Pines Drive and Lake Mead Boulevard, asking for help.
Bullets from an Arizona man charged in connection with the Route 91 Harvest festival gunman were not used in the massacre, defense lawyers wrote this week in court papers.
Six hours after the fact, Las Vegas homicide detectives worked to reconstruct the scene of a shooting Tuesday that left one man dead in the southeast valley.
In one of Scott Dozier’s final phone calls, he reached out to the office of Las Vegas attorney Tom Ericsson, who had represented the condemned prisoner for the last 2½ years of his life.
A Las Vegas man must serve up to 60 years in prison for causing a wreck that killed three pedestrians and injured three others, a judge ruled Monday.