A homeless man who was shot to death as he slept outside a central Las Vegas swap meet Monday morning has been identified by the Clark County coroner’s office.
Homicides
A Las Vegas police sergeant confirmed Wednesday that Oct. 1 gunman Stephen Paddock was dead before any officers breached his Mandalay Bay hotel suite.
The attorney representing Arizona resident Douglas Haig, who was named in October as a “person of interest” in the Las Vegas shooting investigation, said he believes his client is “totally unconnected with the situation.”
A man authorities think killed his wife asked officers to shoot him before they opened fire, the Metropolitan Police Department announced Tuesday.
Arizona resident Douglas Haig, whose name had not been previously released, said he sold ammunition to gunman Stephen Paddock but did not know him.
The man who was fatally shot Saturday night while working on his truck in the east valley was a father of six, his family said.
The child died of blunt-force trauma injuries to the head and neck. Her father, 31-year-old Eric Chu was arrested in Chicago on Friday and is awaiting extradition to the Clark County Detention Center.
Clark County coroner confirms that William Richard Logan killed Rebecca West on Jan. 15 in a rented room and then turned the gun on himself.
The woman fatally shot early Friday by her husband before he was killed by police has been identified.
The man, who was in his 40s, suffered at least one gunshot wound a little after 3 a.m. outside the Rancho Discount Mall, 2901 W. Washington Ave., Metropolitan Police Homicide Lt. Dan McGrath said. The man was pronounced dead at the scene.
Las Vegas police are investigating a fatal drive-by shooting Monday morning in the northeast valley.
A homeless man was stabbed to death in an area on the 4000 block of Paradise Road near Flamingo Road early Sunday evening. Police have not yet identified a suspect.
Las Vegas police have identified the officers who fatally shot a man Friday after he allegedly killed his wife hours earlier in the south valley.
Las Vegas police said the 42-year-old man was working on a Dodge Ram pickup truck outside his mobile home on the 1200 block of Lamb Boulevard when someone came up and shot him several times at close range.
After waiting more than two decades for an arrest in her older sister’s killing, Marie Ann Iverson Coker’s first instinct was to look up the suspect’s social media accounts. “I have waited almost 21 years. I needed to see the last person she saw,” Coker said.