Minutes before she was fatally shot, a 37-year-old woman called Las Vegas police asking for help, saying her husband was “suffering from a mental breakdown.”
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.
The Clark County coroner’s office has identified a 46-year-old man fatally shot at a North Las Vegas apartment complex early Saturday.
Police have arrested a person in a fatal hit-and-run crash Tuesday morning in a parking lot near downtown Las Vegas.
As the six-month anniversary of the deadly Alpine Motel Apartments fire neared, survivors recounted stories of financial despair, relocation and lost possessions.
About 100 bicyclists rode down the Strip on Saturday morning in a “Black Lives Matter” protest organized by former NBA player C.J. Watson.
A woman was fatally stabbed, and a man and woman were fatally shot, in three separate homicides in the Las Vegas Valley from late Friday to early Saturday, police said.
For the second day in a row, Nevada recorded more than 400 new cases of the coronavirus, as Clark County saw similar numbers, marking another day of increased infections.
The Metropolitan Police Department on Friday afternoon released a statement meant to clarify when officers would deem protests illegal and how dispersal orders may be given.
The Clark County coroner’s has office ruled that Johnaya Brown’s death in May was an accident after a gun went off, fatally shooting her, at an east valley apartment.
The Clark County coroner’s office has identified Tramaine Porter, 36, as the man whose death was being investigated by homicide detectives after he was struck by a car.
About 100 people stood outside Las Vegas City Hall on Wednesday morning, with NAACP demonstrators calling out what they said was the “reckless behavior” of council members.
Body-worn camera footage released by the Metropolitan Police Department shows two photographers identify themselves as journalists multiple times as they were arrested during a protest on May 29.
In May, the Nevada Department of Corrections had tested less than half of 1 percent of its prisoners for the coronavirus, but now more than 6,700 people in the prison facilities have been tested, officials said.
Classmates who visited a makeshift memorial Saturday afternoon in Summerlin identified two teenage brothers who died in a dirt bike crash on Friday night as David Cox, 18, and Brandon Cox, 14.
The LVMPD Dispatch account posted the tweet about 11:40 a.m. Saturday. The message also said Shay Mikalonis is unable to speak but is awake and “seems to recognize his family members.”
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