Girl, 8, one of two victims in fatal NLV shootings

Published Saturday, June 13, 2009 | 12:48 a.m.

Updated Saturday, June 13, 2009 | 1:27 a.m.

Girl shot to death

Man fatally shot

A stray bullet fatally struck an 8-year-old girl Friday night in North Las Vegas -- one of two fatal shootings in the city in less than two hours.

Police responded at 10:46 p.m. to a shooting at an apartment complex in the 2100 block of Sun Avenue. The girl was found with critical gunshot wound injuries and later died at University Medical Center, police said.

Investigators said the girl was inside her second-floor apartment when she was struck by a bullet fired from outside the apartment. Family members were inside the apartment at the time and aren't considered suspects, police said. No information about suspects was available early Saturday, authorities said.

Earlier in the evening a 19-year-old man was found shot to death at another North Las Vegas apartment complex.

Police responded at 9:15 p.m. to a report of shots fired at the Cheyenne Villas Apartments, 3260 Fountain Falls Way. Officers arrived and found the man dead of apparent gunshot wounds in a parking lot near Building 27.

Investigators said the man was shot during a disturbance that escalated into gunfire. Police said information about suspects wasn't available.

Anyone with information on either case is being asked to call CrimeStoppers at 385-5555.

These are the 10th and 11th homicides in North Las Vegas this year.

Discussion: 9 comments so far…

By labdaddy

6/13/09 at 5:25 a.m.

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and now let's all sit back and listen to the anti-gun crowd rail against all gun ownership. In three...two...one...
By OG

6/13/09 at 6:20 a.m.

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An 8 year-old girl is dead and all labdaddy sees is his own crass politics. Our hearts should go out to her family during this tragic time.

We should be outraged! The violent crime in Vegas is getting out of hand: this week alone there have been four murders, sometimes with corpses quite literally being found in the streets.

We're going to end up in the same category as Baltimore and Detroit at this rate...and nothing scares tourists aways like violent crime.

We need to throw the book at monsters who tie up their children, boyfriends who murder their ex-girlfriends, gansters chumps who shoot stray bullets and kill children, and alcoholic addicts that drive and kill innocent pedestrians.

We should take OUR CITY BACK!
By labdaddy

6/13/09 at 6:33 a.m.

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O G wrote-

"An 8 year-old girl is dead and all labdaddy sees is his own crass politics."

That is an arrogant assumption, O G. When I offer prayer for someone, it is between me and my God. Not really your or anyone else's business.
By rejco100

6/13/09 at 7:26 a.m.

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Don't forget about the little 1 year old girl thrown away in a dumpster like trash.
By David1961

6/13/09 at 9:11 a.m.

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That neighborhood behind the Speedway Casino is such a nice "upscale" area,...I'd be afraid to walk around there during the day time, never mind after dusk,..
Look, It sure does seem like alot of these people are accelerating the rest of us in town to an existence not unlike an "Escape from N.Y." type environment..I honestly believe in my heart that there are some folks that just were not, intellectually or otherwise meant to live within the framework of a Democratic, free society, and in the long run, Lawmakers are gonna start looking at it as to how to get everyone on the "same sheet of music" no matter what your IQ or economic background happens to be, where alot of people are going to suffer because of it, an accumulation of stuff just like this happening on a regular basis...scary...
By JSpence07

6/13/09 at 9:40 a.m.

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You know... this really irritates me. Gun owners like this shouldn't even have guns to being with. But then again, those guns probably weren't even legal. I agree with labdaddy, it won't be long before people start saying everyone with a gun is a criminal and we must ban them. I'm sorry. We have a gun and we are not criminals.

My heart goes out to that innocent little 8 year old girl that was probably playing with her dolls or something when her life ended so tragically. I hope the police find those guilty for all these murders lately.

Is NLV always this bad? I've been in Las Vegas for less than a year, but NLV has always had that "scary" feel to it. I never like being in NLV, even in the daylight. I wouldn't go there without a gun to be honest.
By stevem

6/13/09 at 9:42 a.m.

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north las vegas, huh?

shocker.
By David1961

6/13/09 at 11:33 a.m.

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There are alot of cool parts of North Las Vegas and alot of history to go along with the rest of this famous village we live in,..but as in any town there are chronic "stay away if possible" parts and this section over there is one of them.
There, as in Yellowstone National Park,The drill is," Keep you're arms and legs inside the car and windows rolled up, and please, please, don't feed the animals"...(not saying that everyone that lives in that area isn't OK people either, they've just always had crime problems, at least in the 26 yrs I've lived here anyhow)
By WelshGirl

6/24/09 at 3:23 a.m.

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I agree with 'OG' regarding 'throwing the book' at monsters, an 8 year old girl has died, it's awful.
Here in the UK, gun crime and knife crime is soaring, it's not so much the guns that are the problem it's the nutters who are using them..
People are lunatics.

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