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Sunday, Jan. 31, 2010 | 9:35 a.m.
Fatal shooting
North Las Vegas police are investigating a double shooting that also is the city's second homicide in four days.
Officers responded at 3:42 a.m. Sunday to the report of gunshots in the 2600 block of Blue Reef Drive, near Martin Luther King Boulevard and Carey Road. Authorities arrived to find a 24-year-old man with an apparent gunshot wound lying in the front yard of a home.
He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Officers then found a second shooting victim, who was taken to University Medical Center with injuries that weren't life-threatening, police said. He was in stable condition Sunday morning, authorities said.
The victim's name will be released by the Clark County Coroner's Office after an autopsy is completed.
This is the third homicide in North Las Vegas this year and the second in four days. A 30-year-old man was killed late Thursday after he was shot through the metal door of an apartment at 3301 Civic Center Drive.
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I'm sure the people of north las vegas are going to feel real safe if the city council follows thru with police layoffs. If they don't take pay concessions. Three deaths in January alone. Perhaps if the city hadn't sqandered money earmarked for the police and had the dozens of officers on patrol instead of being below staffing, this may not have happened. I'm sure that the city coucil will want the police to provide extra patrols in their neighborhood if this continues.
ls1
lets pay the police more and then we'll have not crime and even less money, is that your theory?
you are a genius, go work for Obama, you are probably a community organizer like he is.
I hope one of the victims wasn't my friend and correspondent Willie Tanner.
You could have an officer on every corner in that area,, and there would still be a homicide... Sorry that someone got shot but what do you expect to happen at that time of day,, when your running around....
on the bright side, now there's one less person on unemployment.
Comment removed by moderator. Comment was racist.
Luguna
put down what ever your smoking and step back from the table. I didn't say pay the police any more money and there would be no more crime. Try reading whats written. The city council is proposing cutting the number of police if they don't take a pay cut from their bargined contract. Anyone with any common sence knows that a police presence deters crime. Perhaps you and your neighbors should get together and tell the police not to patrol or respond to crimes in your area to save money. Large signs in your yards could say no police wanted in this area.
This happened around three in the morning? Sounds like a drug deal gone bad.
i find it funny how people always say i "don't know what i'm talking about" when it comes to north las vegas, but every 2 or 3 days there's a killing there.
the politicians on that side of town like to puff their chests with "look how much we've grown" because they got lucky in that all that new land around the 215 got developed, but never seem to address the crime in the areas built before 2000.
How is wagering that the parties involved were black constitute racism? Carey and MLK...pretty obvious...
1 killed in NLV? Must be a slow week in North town.
One less person on unemployment ??? I would bet it would be welfare..
one less dope dealer