Children found safe after fatal shooting

Friday, Oct. 25, 2002 | 11:28 a.m.

A man was shot several times today while sitting in his car at a Las Vegas apartment complex, but managed to drive away before crashing into a pole and other cars, and then careening down an embankment where Metro Police found him dead.

Rescued unharmed from the man's bullet-sprayed car, a silver Pontiac, were two children -- an infant and a toddler.

Metro Police homicide Lt. Tom Monahan said it was unknown what the man's relationship to the children was. Attempts are being made to locate family.

Shots rang out at 8 a.m. in the parking lot of Town and Country Manor, an apartment complex at 4311 Boulder Highway, Monahan said.

Witnesses told police the shots came from a black Cadillac with tinted windows. No suspect information was released.

After the shooting, the victim managed to drive out of the parking lot and head south on Boulder Highway toward Tropicana, about a quarter-mile from the shooting.

The car hit a pole at the intersection, struck a few cars and went over the embankment in front of Sportsman's Royal Manor, a studio apartment house, police said.

The Clark County coroner was en route to identify the victim.

Rescuers found an infant in the front passenger seat strapped in a child's car seat. The other child, a toddler, was found in the back seat. Initially the children were taken into the Sportsmans Royal Manor, but were to be taken to Child Haven, police said.

The incident remains under investigation. Police had not determined a motive.