Police probe homicides

Monday, Nov. 1, 2004 | 11:19 a.m.

Metro Police are investigating four homicides that occurred between Saturday and this morning.

A body was also found Friday near the Las Vegas Speedway, and detectives are trying to determine who he is, when he died and who killed him.

The most recent homicide was about 4:30 a.m. today in the parking lot of the Pecos Terrace Apartments, 3555 E. Lake Mead Blvd., near Pecos Road.

Police said the victim was walking through an apartment complex parking lot when a car pulled up and fired several shots at the man, killing him. His name had not been released this morning.

A neighbor heard the shots and went outside with a shotgun, but he fell and the shotgun fired, police said, a bullet grazing his head. He was being treated this morning at University Medical Center for non life-threatening injuries.

Two of the homicides occurred Sunday night.

Shortly after 10 p.m. Sunday, a 23-year-old man was found shot to death on a sidewalk in the 2300 block of Tam Drive near Cleveland Avenue.

Sgt. Ken Hefner said the victim, his cousin and a friend were sitting in the grass when two cars pulled to the curb. Two suspects got out of an early '90s teal-colored car with tinted windows and started shooting at the group.

The man, whose name had not been released this morning, was taken to University Medical Center, where he later died.

Police are looking for two men. One is described as a black man, tall, thin and with a dark complexion, wearing a black beanie cap and dark hooded sweatshirt. The other is also a black man, police said, and had a stocky build and wore dark clothing. Both appeared to be in their mid-20s.

A second car, described as an early '90s white Chevrolet Monte Carlo with tinted windows and no license plates, was seen traveling in tandem with the other car.

About 7:30 p.m. Sunday, a woman found her 27-year-old boyfriend shot dead in a room at the Barcelona Hotel and Casino at 5011 E. Craig Road near Nellis Boulevard, Sgt. Rocky Alby said.

The woman found the door locked and was let into the room by a hotel employee. Once inside she found her boyfriend dead. His name had not been released this morning.

Hotel guests told police they heard gunshots early Sunday evening, but police do not have any witnesses to the shooting itself, Alby said.

Early Saturday morning, a man was shot to death in an alley in the 1700 block of North Lamb Boulevard, police said.

Neighbors reported hearing yelling about 1:30 a.m., then the sound of a gun firing. Detectives learned that two men approached the victim and his friend in the alley. A conversation ensued and one of the men pulled out a gun and started firing.

The victim was identified this morning as 47-year-old Gregorio Enriquez-Figueroa of Las Vegas.

Police are also investigating the death of a man found Friday in the desert along Interstate 15 near the Las Vegas Speedway.

Two men were driving south on the highway about 10 a.m. when they ran out of gas, pulled off the road and called friends for help, police said.

While the men waited, they explored the nearby desert and found the body near the entrance of a flood ditch beneath the road.

Police described the victim as a man in his 30s, and he apparently was shot and killed where he was found. His name had not yet been released this morning.

In addition to the homicides, police are investigating a shooting Sunday that left an 11-year-old girl with a non life-threatening gunshot wound in her chest.

Two 17-year-olds were arrested in connection with the shooting, which occurred about 10:55 a.m. Sunday on Evergreen Avenue near Decatur and Charleston boulevards, Lt. Richard Collins said.

The shooting was a result of an ongoing dispute between one of her brothers and some other teenagers, police said.

The shooting is believed to be gang-related, police said.