Suspect arrested after
Two assailants opened fire Tuesday afternoon at a school bus stop in northeast Las Vegas, sending six people, including four Mojave High School students, to the hospital, police said.
"This is not a random act," Sheriff Doug Gillespie said at a news conference. "We are looking at this as someone who was there for a particular individual or individuals."
Police reports indicated an accidental bump between two teens at the crowded bus stop a day before led to the trouble on Tuesday.
Mojave High School student David Macias told police that after he apologized to Nicco Tatum, an 18-year-old dropout with a troubled past, Tatum responded with punches.
The next day, Macias summoned friends and relatives to the bus stop to protect him after school, but they could not shield him from bullets fired into the crowd by Tatum and another gunman, police said.
"I looked back and saw him holding a gun," a Mojave High School freshman said of the shooter. "I heard people yelling, screaming.
"These people next to me got shot. They were laying on the ground. … I heard bullets flying past me," the 14-year-old said.
Authorities arrested Tatum on Wednesday night after a tip came in that he was going to Chicago on a Greyhound bus. U.S. marshals and Denver police were waiting for the bus when it stopped at a bus station in Denver.
Tatum is to be charged with six counts of attempted murder with a deadly weapon and six counts of battery with a deadly weapon, Las Vegas police Capt. Kirk Primas said.
MONDAY
Coroner: DuBrow died of overdose
Quiet Riot frontman Kevin DuBrow died of a cocaine overdose, the Clark County coroner’s office said.
"It was cocaine intoxication, and it was an accident," Samantha Charles, a spokeswoman with the coroner’s office, said of his cause and manner of death. DuBrow was found Nov. 25 at his Las Vegas home.
TUESDAY
Nevada gaming has record month
Nevada’s casino industry recorded a monthly record for gaming revenues in October, collecting more than $1.164 billion, the Gaming Control Board reported.
But it didn’t translate immediately into a record contribution into the state’s tax coffers. Gaming observers said the discrepancy between gaming revenues and tax collections was due to high-end play at Strip casinos, including baccarat play, which is traditionally handled through credit. Once casinos collect the markers, the taxes are forwarded to the state.
WEDNESDAY
Harrah’s action costs 200 jobs
The subsidiary of Harrah’s Entertainment at the center of the company’s room remodeling controversy was closed, terminating the employment of some 200 workers including supervisors of troubled renovations at the Rio, Harrah’s Las Vegas and Flamingo.
"Effective immediately, we are closing Roman Empire Development, a subsidiary of Harrah’s, that has been providing construction, supervision and labor for room renovation projects in Las Vegas," said Harrah’s spokeswoman Marybel Batjer.
"This will include all employees responsible for directly supervising improper renovation work."
THURSDAY
Cost of meal here tops New York
According to the latest edition of the Zagat guide for Las Vegas, the city has bypassed New York to become the most expensive restaurant city in the country.
An average restaurant meal in Las Vegas is $44.44, according to the guide, compared with $39.46 in New York.
FRIDAY
Gibbons directs budget cuts
Gov. Jim Gibbons announced a plan to spread the pain of an ever-worsening state budget shortfall by cutting virtually every state agency and program, including public education, by 4.5 percent per year.
The cuts would total $284 million and address a revenue shortfall now estimated at $440 million.
The remainder will be made up by tapping the state’s rainy day fund and making cuts in capital construction projects and other one-time expenditures.
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