Las Vegas news briefs for July 28, 1999

Wednesday, July 28, 1999 | 12:45 p.m.

18-year-old killed, 15-year-old wounded

An 18-year-old man was killed and a 15-year-old was wounded in an apparent gunfight late Tuesday, Metro Police said.

Police responded to the Seven Seas Lounge at 808 W. Lake Mead Blvd. just before midnight and found patrons and employees giving first aid to the 18-year-old, who had been shot in the stomach. The victim was taken to University Medical Center where he died in surgery.

Later, a 15-year-old with gunshot wounds to the arm and leg arrived at UMC. Police believe he was also shot at the Seven Seas Lounge, although officers are not sure if he and the 18-year-old were involved in the shooting or were just innocent bystanders.

Investigators found different caliber shell casings in two areas of the Seven Seas parking lot leading them to believe that a shootout occurred.

Metro Police are asking anyone with information that could clear up the circumstances involving the shooting to call the homicide division at 229-3521 or 385-5555.

Arrested principal won't return

Roy Shupe, a Clark County School District principal who threatened suicide recently, won't be returning to his job at Hancock Elementary School.

Spokeswoman Mary Stanley-Larsen said Shupe would not be principal at any school in the district, but declined to say if he would be working in some other capacity or if he had been fired.

"This is a personnel matter," she said.

The 52-year-old Shupe was charged July 11 with felony obstruction after threatening to kill himself while holed up at his residence.

Cops search for Summerlin robber

Metro Police are looking for a man who robbed the Resort at Summerlin Sunday in the newly opened hotel-casino's first armed robbery.

The man ran through the casino area shortly after midnight and brandished a revolver in front of about four employees standing at a workers' station, police said. He grabbed at least two pouches of unknown amount of money from the employees, and then he ran back through the casino and out a door, Lt. John Alamshaw said.

The robber is described as a 5-foot-4-inch, light-skinned black man between 25 and 30. Police say the man weighs about 160 pounds and was last seen wearing a black sweatshirt, a white baseball cap and white gloves.

Robberies at Las Vegas' hotel-casinos are not uncommon, Alamshaw said. "It happens on occasion."

Funds sought for Yucca oversight

Rep. Jim Gibbons, R-Nev., asked for help from a House subcommittee chairman on Tuesday to secure funds for Nevada and local governments struggling to oversee federal scientific work at a proposed high-level nuclear waste repository.

When Congress passed the legislation allowing the Department of Energy to study Yucca Mountain, 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas, oversight money was included, Gibbons told Rep. Ron Packard, R-Calif., chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water.

However, the state and affected local governments were stripped of oversight funding after an audit indicated misuse of the nuclear waste funds. The funds cannot be used to oppose or lobby against the repository project.

Gibbons said he is asking for $4.72 million for the state and $5.43 million for 10 counties in the 2000 fiscal year budget.

Packard promised to work with Gibbons at the end of the floor session.

Website offers access to contractor licenses

A new website will provide instant access to thousands of Nevada State Contractors Board license records.

The new website -- www.state.nv.us/nscb/ -- is designed as a 24-hour resource center providing access to license and bond verification, consumer information, complaint forms and contractor documents.

The website is run by the state and will provide an e-mail link for residents to report unlicensed contractors.

FOR THE RECORD:

Las Vegas Mayor

Oscar Goodman will meet with residents Friday for three hours in an effort to learn of their concerns about the city. Goodman's meeting will be in the City Council chambers at City Hall, 400 E. Stewart Ave. from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Future meetings will be held at the same time on Aug. 20, Sept. 24, Oct. 29 and Nov. 19.