Law enforcement investigated at least 245 homicides last year in Clark County. That’s the most since 2017, when 264 people were killed.
Shootings
A man booked on a murder charge told a witness “I swear to god it was an accident” moments after fatally shooting the victim in his home, according to an arrest report released Wednesday.
The Clark County coroner’s office said the victim died from a gunshot wound to the chest.
Police say a witness description and surveillance video enabled them to connect the vehicle to one of the two men arrested in connection with 2 homicides on New Year’s Eve.
Aron Robinson, 18, died after being shot last month in North Las Vegas, police announced Tuesday.
A North Las Vegas man is accused of murder after police said he killed a man while the two worked on refurbishing a pool in November.
Two men are facing dozens of charges after a woman was shot to death in a fight about money from COVID loans, according to an arrest warrant released Monday.
Chengyan Wang told police that he was mopping the floor when a gunman entered the restaurant through the unlocked back door.
Her death was one of two on Friday linked to two suspects the Metropolitan Police Department later arrested on murder counts.
The shootings in parking garages at the Fashion Show mall and Palace Station, which took the lives of a 66-year-old woman and a man in his 50s, are believed to be related.
Two people are facing several charges, including attempted murder and burglary, after police said a man shot and critically injured a teenager in Henderson.
A 19-year-old was booked in the Clark County Detention Center Wednesday in connection with a fatal shooting.
A felon accused of shooting a Chinatown waiter multiple times was released from jail six days before the crime with the help of a national nonprofit.
A 24-year-old man arrested in connection with a fatal shooting at a Las Vegas restaurant was sentenced Wednesday on a weapons charge.
Las Vegas police are investigating a shooting late Tuesday that left a Las Vegas woman with a gunshot wound to the face.