The Clark County coroner’s office has identified a man who was shot and killed Sunday evening in a northeast Las Vegas home.
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Las Vegas police released additional information Friday about a police shooting that left a man dead on Tuesday at an apartment complex on Charleston Boulevard.
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The state’s two-week moving positivity rate declined to 5.6 percent on Thursday, the first decline in the metric in more than a week, according to state data.
The fourth person arrested in connection with the death of a 21-year-old man in December owned the car involved in the shooting, according to an arrest report.
A 62-year-old man on death row for the 1985 torture-killing of his 4-year-old stepdaughter died in a Clark County prison on Monday.
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Police were called about 9:30 a.m. to the scene near Eastern and Sahara avenues.
The 15-year-old was shot at about 8:30 p.m. on the 2300 block of North Daley Street, a residential area near Carey Avenue and Las Vegas Boulevard North, police say.