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Wednesday, April 6, 2011 | 4:16 p.m.
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Metro Police will be holding two voluntary traffic checkpoints tonight in the northwest valley in an attempt to find possible witnesses in the slaying of Michael Portaro.
Portaro, a 22-year-old aspiring rapper, was found dead outside the Tenaya Creek Brewery, near Tenaya Way and Cheyenne Avenue, by bar patrons last Wednesday night. Officials determined Portaro died from multiple gunshot wounds.
Checkpoints will be in northbound and southbound lanes of the 3100 block of North Tenaya and will begin at about 9 p.m.
Metro’s hope is that those who follow daily and weekly travel routines in the area can provide information or might have seen something suspicious a week earlier.
Portaro was a former athlete at Faith Lutheran High School. His younger brother, Joe, was Faith Lutheran’s quarterback last season and committed to walk-on with the UNLV football team later this year.
Anyone with information in the case is being urged to contact Metro homicide investigators at 828-3521 or Crime Stoppers at 385-5555 or crimestoppersofnv.com.
Here's your first clue: the fact that he was an aspiring rapper.
Violence? In the rap industry? No way!
Thought his education in an expensive private school would lead him to become successful in life. Guess not. So much for the myth that private schools are better than public schools. Myth Busted!
Really?
CHECKPOINTS???
Seems like a rather UNPRECEDENTED Police action...
Never hoid of such a ting.
There MUST be more to this part of the story. (?)
Why waste the manpower and people's time? Just arrest all the rappers in NLV and you will eliminate 99% of the crime in the city!
An aspiring rapper? Well, here is a clue what happened. The last article about "aspiring rapper" (a.k.a. Blue) wasn't that long ago. For some reason, we tend to see a lot of "aspiring rappers" being killed or killing someone. Wondering why is that...
"totellitasitis"...This shooting was in Las Vegas, not North Las Vegas.
If the police want the publics help, they could at least release the make and model of the car that was stolen from the victim and where it was found.
"allaroundtown" His car was found in North Las Vegas, need any other clues?