Two men shot — one by police — during Las Vegas domestic incident

Jackie Valley

Metro Police cordoned off a section of the Summerhill Pointe Apartment complex at 9501 Sahara Ave. Sunday afternoon after an officer-involved shooting. Police said a woman’s current husband shot her ex-husband in the leg after an altercation, and when police arrived, the current husband “got into it” with two officers, police said. Two officers fired at the current husband, critically injuring him.

By Jackie Valley

Published Sunday, July 18, 2010 | 5:43 p.m.

Updated Sunday, July 18, 2010 | 8:22 p.m.

Investigators were working the scene Sunday evening in a southwest Las Vegas apartment complex where, late Sunday afternoon, a domestic disturbance involving a husband, his wife and her ex-husband ended up with both men getting shot — including one of them by two Metro police officers.

Both the husband and the ex-husband were taken to University Medical Center, according to Barbara Morgan, Metro public information officer. The husband is in critical condition and the ex-husband is in stable condition, Morgan said.

Neither one of the officers were injured, she said. The names of the two men, the wife and the two officers have not yet been made public.

Metro Police Capt. Patrick Neville told reporters that police were interviewing the officers involved in the shooting Sunday evening and were also trying to obtain a search warrant to get into the apartment, located at Summerhill Pointe Apartment complex, 9501 W. Sahara. More details about the shootings will be available to the media on Monday, Neville said.

What police did know Sunday night was that the wife, her husband and her ex-husband were involved in moving at the apartment Sunday afternoon. During the move, the husband and the ex-husband got into an altercation, which ended up with the current husband shooting the ex-husband in the leg, Neville said.

The wife called police about the shooting at 4:13 p.m. and officers headed to the scene to deal with a report of "battery with a deadly weapon," Neville said.

Neville said when two Metro officers arrived, they "got into it" with the current husband and the two officers both fired at him, critically injuring him. It wasn't clear whether the husband fired on the officers, but Neville said neither one of the two officers were harmed. All of the shootings took place inside the apartment, Neville said.

A man who was at the scene Sunday afternoon said he had just gotten off a bus on the corner near the apartment complex when the shooting was taking place. He said he heard multiple rounds of gunfire, possibly six shots.

Sunday's incident is the third Metro officer-involved shooting incident in the city within eight days. It is also the 18th officer-involved shooting this year, police said.