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Sam Morris / Las Vegas Sun
A Metro officer stands by patrol cars at the scene of an officer involved shooting outside a Speedee Mart at 3011 East Desert Inn Road Monday, November 15, 2010.
By Rich Coleman, Jackie Valley (contact) 
Published Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2010 | 10:54 a.m.
Updated Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2010 | 5:12 p.m.
The Clark County coroner on Tuesday identified two men killed by Metro Police in separate shootings less than five hours apart on Monday.
The coroner said Benjamin Bowman, 22, of Henderson, was fatally shot by police Monday after he allegedly held a knife to a bartender and attacked a patron with a bottle during a robbery at P.T.'s Pub, 2280 S. Nellis Blvd.
Bowman wasn't complying with officers' demands and said he was going to kill the bartender, police said.
Once the woman was able to free herself, three officers fired at Bowman, who was taken to Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, police said.
Also today, the coroner's office said 32-year-old Anthony Brenes, of Las Vegas, was killed in an earlier shooting Monday after police tried to use a Taser stun gun and a bean bag shotgun to subdue him.
Police say Brenes attacked officers with a sharpened walking stick outside Speedee Mart, 3011 E. Desert Inn Road, at the corner with Pecos-McLeod Drive.
Police said one officer fired a single round at Brenes after he began "swinging the weapon in a chopping motion" while continuing to approach the officers. Brenes died at the scene.
Capt. Patrick Neville of Metro's robbery and homicide bureau said police believe surveillance video cameras from the Speedee Mart captured the incident. Police were working with management at the store to obtain the video.
The officers involved in the shootings were placed on paid administrative leave per department policy. Police will release their names 48 hours after the incidents occurred.
Police say the two incidents weren't connected. They mark the 24th and 25th officer-involved shootings this year in Metro's jurisdiction.
Can we see a photo of this "sharpened walking stick"? Or how about the video please? Then we can spare everyone all of the innuendo.
As an aside, as I run into such questions in my line of work:
Let me ask you all this question:
What if you believe excessive force is being used against you by a member of law enforcement, and you become convinced that unless no immediate action is taken, you most certainly will be killed....what are your rights under the Constitution to protect your own life with equal measured force, or at least enough force to stop the threat?
Furthermore, what are the odds that a jury will see things the way you did?
Here's my response: 1) we all do have rights. How and why the F- do you think we ever took the colonies from the British Empire?
2) Caveat to the above, regarding the jury... In Las Vegas or Clarke Country, you'd be Fu*@ed 6 ways to Sunday if you ever did anything like that.
Here's the breakdown friends. Whatever it is you do, you may have a right to do. But at the end of the day you are going to be judged by 12 of the dumbest people in the country, according to recent surveys. What is the conclusion: Don't ever do anything that will put you in front of any kind of jury in Clarke County. You are, in it's truest essence of the term, rolling the dice. And again, you may be totally in the right.
Finally, if you're a smart guy (or gal), you'll know ahead of time that an officer is begging for you to give him the opportunity to take you down. Not necessarily with lethal force. But because he's got to release some of the anxiety that goes along with the job (the bureaucracy, the pecking order, the dirt bags, the machismo, the ambivalence from the public, the constant need to prove oneself, the desire to move up only to be pushed back down, and on and on ad nauseam). You can compare it to the constant training a firefighter goes through, but there's never a fire. Or a combat trained infantryman, but there's no war. Or a baseball pitcher who only knows the bench.
In the words of John Foggerty. A fine Irishman and a musician to boot:
"Oh, put me in, Coach - I'm ready to play today;
Put me in, Coach - I'm ready to play today;
Look at me, I can be Centerfield."
Boys and girls, you just re-elected a law and order wrecking crew. And what's more, you told them, hey, great job, keep up the good work! Keep taking out the trash with any means necessary! Then you want to get up on this board and start lodging complaints. This must be the Las Vegas they'd talked about that study of smartest to dumbest metro areas.
I like how the one idiot that comments on how dumb everyone is can't even spell Clark right
Hey, you got me. You exposed me for the fool that I really am. You are right and everything I said was wrong. Wait don't shoot!
Do you have an opinion on any of the content that I laid out or do you just prefer sniping at people from a tree without any real substance numskull?
That's like saying, hey you're socks don't match, therefore everything you say is completely wrong.
Proof positive why I wouldn't want anyone from "CLARK" County setting on a jury.
Wait I just used "you're" instead of "your." Go easy gohugatree. Just pepper spray please. No bullets.
I'll comment on your content. Its baseless. Cops don't "[beg] for you to give him the opportunity to take you down." Your view on the anxiety of the job is based on TV stereotypes and John Foggerty lyrics included make you sound as clueless as someone trying to spice up their speech with hip colloquialisms that are out of place.
the fact that there was/is some substantial outcry from the public over several of the recent LE shootings, should require a measurable response from the sheriff.
such a response has not yet been offered in any real changes, in fact all things are quite "business as usual" over at metro.
right or wrong in re: use of force by metro. one thing is CLEAR. you folks have lost the ability to influence your sheriff's policy. he's not listening to your concerns. that is truly frightening.