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.
Homicides
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.
U.S. marshals arrested a Las Vegas man in Chicago in connection with the death of his 10-month-old child, the Metropolitan Police Department announced Friday.
A former Metropolitan Police Department officer previously convicted of abusing his badge for sex admitted involvement in a 1997 sexual encounter and shooting that left a woman dead, according to court documents obtained Friday.
Outside the couple’s house in the immediate aftermath of the shooting, McGrath said the teen who called 911 had performed CPR on his mother. Her death is the 11th homicide investigated by Metro this year.
Bryan Clay was formally sentenced Thursday on charges related to the murders of Ignacia “Yadira” Martinez, 38, and her 10-year-old daughter, Karla. Clay alluded to an appeal, telling District Judge Douglas Herndon, “We’re not done yet. It’s not complete.”
Rebecca West, whose death was ruled a homicide by the Clark County coroner’s office, died of a gunshot wound to her head. The 52-year-old’s partner, who was found dead next to her, had not been identified by Monday morning.
Manuel de Jesus Parra-Luna, 28, was shot in the head Saturday morning by his girlfriend’s husband, later identified as 41-year-old Jorge Rodriguez, who then killed himself. The woman also was wounded, but is expected to survive.
Jovanni Grimes was fatally shot about 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Lewis Family Park, near East Charleston Boulevard and Tree Line Drive. The Clark County coroner’s office on Monday ruled his death a homicide.
Carlos Anton Pashaca-Rodriguez, 21, died of multiple gunshot wounds to his head and multiple stab and incise wounds, according to the Clark County coroner’s office. His death was ruled a homicide.
A former Las Vegas police officer accused of raping and killing a woman more than 20 years ago was ordered held without bail Monday.