Local Briefs

Wednesday, Dec. 18, 1996 | 11:59 a.m.

* MAN SHOT -- A 30-year-old man was shot to death early today in West Las Vegas, and Metro Police have no suspects. A man ran into a 24-hour barber shop in the 500 block of West Jackson Avenue near F Street and told an employee to call 911 because someone had just been shot outside, police said. Police received the 911 call at 1:50 a.m. Officers found a man down in a vacant lot. The man had walked about 40 yards before collapsing in the lot, homicide Sgt. Bill Keeton said. The shooting actually took place at Van Buren Avenue and E Street, he said. The man was walking with another man when the shooting occurred. But his companion fled before police arrived, Keeton said. Police believe his companion was the one who went into the barber shop after the shooting. Police are asking anyone with information to call homicide at 229-3521 or Secret Witness at 385-5555.

* FOREMAN KILLED -- A construction foreman killed when a grader ran over him in North Las Vegas has been identified as 58-year-old John Pack of Henderson. Crews were grading at a construction site at 4721 Mitchell St. in preparation for building a warehouse when the 12:40 p.m. Tuesday accident occurred, North Las Vegas Police Lt. Chris Larotonda said. "They were flattening the ground," Larotonda said. "He was behind the grader when it backed up. There were lots of workers right there at the time, but whether they actually saw the accident, I don't know." A worker operating a grader ran over Pack's upper body with the rear wheels, said Jim Stubler, division chief with the North Las Vegas Fire Department. The driver was sitting in a glass cab, and as both rear wheels ran over Pack, the driver looked down and saw him below. "The guy operating the motor grader didn't know it until he saw him lying next to the grader," Stubler said.

* CARTOONIST CHATS -- SUN editorial cartoonist Mike Smith will be interviewed at noon Thursday on "Newsweek On Air," a radio show broadcast locally on KDWN 720-AM. Two other editorial cartoonists -- Steve Kelley of the San Diego Union-Tribune and Doug Marlette of Newsday in New York -- also will be on the program. Smith is nationally syndicated by King Features to more than 400 papers nationwide. He also appears weekly in USA Today.