Arrest records indicate that a teenage girl recruited two friends to help her kill her mother, whose body was found in the desert between Lake Mead and Las Vegas.
Homicides
A woman has surrendered to police in connection with the shooting death of a man in the west valley last week.
A man has been arrested on a murder charge in the death of a man whose body was found in early December in the south Las Vegas Valley.
Two men were arrested last week in connection with an April home invasion that turned deadly, police said Tuesday.
Police are investigating a homicide following a deadly altercation between a group in a vehicle and a bicyclist in the northwest Arizona community of Bullhead City.
Shadow Ridge senior Tiris Coleman Jr. was slated to graduate this year and had offers to play college ball, his mom said. But it was all cut short Sunday — just weeks before his 18th birthday.
The shooting death of a 17-year-old boy Sunday evening at a basketball court marks the fourth known death of a Shadow Ridge High School student since August.
Las Vegas police found Jared Medina’s body on Jan. 5 on West Lake Mead Boulevard. First responders did not notice any signs of trauma, but an autopsy the next day showed he had been shot in the back.
One man is dead after a Friday night shooting on the east side of the valley.
The man who was injured in a west valley shooting Wednesday night died the following day, police said.
The Nevada Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a lower court decision to reject the guilty plea of Javier Righetti in the murder of a 15-year-old Arbor View High School freshman.
A 17-year-old and his mother pleaded not guilty Thursday to criminal charges in the fatal shooting of former Chaparral High School football player Richard Nelson.
Family and friends of the woman fatally stabbed over a cellphone on Valentine’s Day said she was killed days before her birthday.
A woman who is accused of plowing her car into a crowd of pedestrians on the Las Vegas Strip in 2015 returned to court Wednesday after a mental evaluation.
Since 2013, police records show, 15 of 25 homicides in Henderson were attributed in some way to domestic violence. Those statistics cap an alarming four-year leap in domestic-related homicides in a city that’s been touted as among the nation’s safest.
