A man was shot in the stomach Wednesday night in the west valley, Las Vegas police said.
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Eric Church, Keith Urban, Darius Rucker and Lady Antebellum opened the 2017 Country Music Association Awards with a touching performance honoring the 58 people killed at a country music festival on the Strip last month.
The victim was in critical condition at University Medical Center after being shot in the head about 5 p.m. Tuesday on the 1700 block of Fairfield Avenue, near the intersection of Main Street and Las Vegas Boulevard.
The couple in their 80s who died in an apparent murder-suicide earlier this month at a northwest valley rehabilitation center has been identified.
A 24-year-old man killed Friday in a North Las Vegas shooting has been identified.
In the back of blue 1994 Ford Ranger pickup truck, a man watched his wife die. In his devastation, he found two “angels” willing to do whatever they could to save her.
The Metropolitan Police Department will have increased presence at Sunday’s Rock ’n’ Roll Marathon, and organizers expect security to be tight as ever. Police have planned for multiple scenarios at the marathon, and prepared safeguards and responses for each one, Capt. Andy Walsh said.
Executives at MGM assembled quickly on news of the shooting on the night of Oct. 1, making sure that employees and guests had needed support. By 8 a.m. on Oct. 2, MGM coordinated with Clark County to bring about 40 counselors onto the Strip.
Lomita, California-resident Bob Patterson lost his wife, Lisa, who was his best friend of 28 years and the mother of his three children, to the Las Vegas shooting. And even as he deals with financial difficulties, he says he’s going to have to give back money that came in for funeral expenses.
While each passing hour seems to provide new information about the seething veteran who shot up a Baptist church in Texas on Sunday, the gunman responsible for the Las Vegas massacre remains a mystery nearly five weeks later.
More than 12 hours after the Monday afternoon discovery of a bloody double homicide in the western Las Vegas Valley, a next-door neighbor suspected of the killings was fatally shot by SWAT officers in his home.
Henderson Police suspect Giovanni Melton was fatally shot once by his father, Wendell Demetrius Melton, on Thursday.
The man lay hysterical and bleeding on top of Lorisa Loy in a stranger’s truck bed packed with shooting victims, hurtling toward one of the valley’s hospitals.
Patrol officer Marc Rasmussen, 38, fired one round at the end of a short pursuit that ended when the suspects hit another police vehicle early Friday, police say.
Las Vegas nurse Zully Hernandez is becoming something of a regular on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” with Monday marking her third appearance on the talk show in the past two months.