News briefs for June 10, 2005

Friday, June 10, 2005 | 9:44 a.m.

Woman apparently slain in apartment

Metro Police this morning were investigating the apparent homicide of a 20-year-old woman found dead in an apartment complex on Decatur Blvd and Sahara Ave at about 3:40 a.m.

The woman's sister found the woman dead in the apartment they shared at the Painted Desert complex, 2851 S. Decatur Blvd near Sahara.

The dead woman's car, a white 2004 Kia Rio with Nevada license plate 081RZU, was missing, police said.

Accident victim identified

A passenger who died Wednesday night in a car wreck at Frank Sinatra Drive and Flamingo Road has been identified as Robert Lee Norsworthy, 17, of Las Vegas.

Norsworthy was killed when driver Julian Pickens, 28, of Compton, Calif., lost control of his car and hit a concrete wall, police said.

Man killed in U.S. 95 wreck ID'd

A man who was killed Thursday morning when his car slid under a tractor-trailer on U.S. 95 near Valley View Boulevard has been identified as Rudy Guerra, 23, of Las Vegas.

Guerra's white 1985 Honda became lodged under the truck's rear axles, troopers said. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Murder-suicide claims two

Two men who died in what police said was a murder-suicide Thursday morning in the 4500 block of Ogden Avenue have been identified as Jose Frias, 18 and Enrique Licero, 21, both of Las Vegas.

Police said the murder-suicide was the result of an ongoing conflict between the two men. Both lived in the neighborhood where the incident occurred.

Kirkland to head Nevada Guard

Brig. Gen. Cynthia Kirkland on Saturday will become the first woman to head the Nevada National Guard.

Kirkland will have the title of adjutant general and replaces retiring Maj. Gen. Giles Vanderhoof. Vanderhoof, adjutant general since January 2001, is retiring after 46 years of military service.

Kirkland, who enlisted in the National Guard in 1982, will command both soldiers and airmen. She is the wife of Dick Kirkland, the former director of the state Department of Public Safety.

The change of command ceremony will be held in Reno at the Nevada Air National Guard base.