The Clark County coroner’s office has identified a man shot and killed by a car dealership employee on Friday.
Katelyn Newberg
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Katelyn joined the Las Vegas Review-Journal’s metro desk in June after graduating from the University of Florida. She previously worked with the paper in the summer of 2017 as an intern on the business desk. Before graduating college she was the editor in chief of the Independent Florida Alligator. She was born and raised in Orlando, Florida.
Police have not made any arrests after a man identified by the Clark County coroner’s office as 32-year-old Jacqwan Rankin was shot and killed Sunday morning.
The fatalities tied for the second highest number of deaths recorded in a single day since the pandemic arrived in Nevada in early March.
The Las Vegas Fire Department on Tuesday morning is investigating a fire in a northwest Las Vegas apartment.
Las Vegas police arrested a man who climbed onto the wing of a commercial plane Saturday afternoon at McCarran International Airport.
Updated figures posted to the state health department’s coronavirus website brought totals in the state to 183,951 cases and 2,520 deaths.
Las Vegas’ bicycling community shed tears and shared stories in Summerlin on Saturday in remembrance of five cyclists killed in a crash on Thursday.
Las Vegas resident Tom Trauger, 57, was one of five cyclists killed Thursday in a highway crash. “We have guys all over the country that are all in mourning,” a friend said.
The spike in coronavirus cases in Nevada is pressuring hospitals, especially in Southern Nevada where a record 90 percent of licensed beds were full as of Friday.
Las Vegas police and FBI officials arrested 11 men during during an operation targeting “online predators,” including a Clark County School District assistant principal.
A 17-year-old boy was arrested on suspicion of driving impaired with three other juveniles in the car during a crash Thursday that killed a 57-year-old woman, Las Vegas police said.
Officers were called about 12:10 p.m. to the crash involving a blue Pontiac at North Stephanie Street and West Sunset Road, the Henderson Police Department said.
A motorcyclist was killed during a crash Thursday morning in the west Las Vegas Valley, police said.
The figure was the biggest single-day increase in reported fatalities since the pandemic began in March and was the second record set in a week.
Metropolitan Police Department Assistant Sheriff Chris Jones is one of six finalists for a police chief position in Fort Worth, Texas, officials announced Wednesday.