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A Metro motorcycle is seen in the 2900 block of Theresa Avenue as officers and detectives investigate the scene of a shooting Friday, May 27, 2011.
Published Friday, May 27, 2011 | 8:18 a.m.
Updated Friday, May 27, 2011 | 5:25 p.m.
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A Metro Police officer fatally shot a man Friday morning in the northeast valley after responding to a domestic disturbance.
Police responded to reports of the disturbance at 7:33 a.m. in the 2900 block of Theresa Avenue, near Washington Avenue and Mojave Road. Metro spokesman Officer Marcus Martin said officers received reports that a man was trying to stab a woman with a screwdriver.
When officers arrived, police heard an altercation inside the house. After entering, they went to a back room and found a 36-year-old man assaulting a woman, police said.
Officers gave commands in Spanish and English for the suspect to release the woman, but the man didn't heed the officers’ commands, police said. An altercation with officers ensued and police tried to use a Taser on the man twice, but it had no effect, Martin said.
The man then reached for another officer’s Taser, prompting an officer to shoot the man, police said. The man died at the scene. The woman had no serious injuries, Martin said.
Police are continuing to investigate the circumstances surrounding the shooting. Martin said there is a possibility the man had tried to use scissors as a weapon during the incident.
The Clark County Coroner’s Office will identify the man.
The officers have been placed on paid administrative leave and will be identified after 48 hours, which is standard policy in cases of officer-involved shootings.
Sun reporter Paul Takahashi contributed to this report.
The city really needs to do something about the constant crimes in the N - NE side of Valley!!!! Being overrun by the LOWLIFE SCUM!!!!
shoot first and maybe you wont be able to answer questions,we all know metro has a history.
Just like Officer Segura, when in a dispute with a loved one, all common sense, goes out the window. Life is about choices. Although, I am not Mormon, some of the LDS parishioners ware a ring. On the ring, it has the initials CTR, which means "Choose The Right". Yes, life is full of choices, even in the heat of passion, you have to CTR. Just a thought.
Get out your checkbooks Mr and Mrs Taxpayer. Business as usual at the Las Vegas Metro Police.
Good shot. Weed out as many as possible of these scumbag wife beaters.
Hey mred, at least they tried the taser first this time - twice in fact. If the guy wasn't trying to beat up a female he'd still be alive - his problem that he's not.
....actually I meant to say if the BULLY wasn't tryng to beat up a female.....
There's an old saying, when the cops show up, somebody is going to jail. New saying, If you want to live you better not call Metro. Cause when Metro shows up, somebody gonna die.
...an uninjured female.
...a dead guy with a screwdriver.
...hmmmm.
"Back in the day", I doubt a bunch of Coppers would need tasers or glocks to bring this clown down.
All I'm sayin...
Always good to throw out that the dead guy had something that may have been used - a walking stick? A pair of scissors? A furtive moment?
Murderers. No different than the thugs who kill innocent people. Criminal minds!
Try to justify it all you want murderer, you know what you've done.
More paid vacations..whoops..paid administrative leaves. I guess it's summertime in Vegas.
@TomD122 and azsk8fan...Your comments are valid only if the dead man was actually beating up someone. There has been nothing presented other than the word of a historically dishonest police force to suggest that this was the case. All we know for sure is that the bullies with guns killed someone. Remember these are the same bullies that employ known liars like Bryan Yant, Bob Rogers, Jerry "Bob" Montes, Mark Mills, Rick Klein, Bob Lewis and even Sheriff DougieG himself They can't trusted.
I just wonder how many times you need someone to lie to you before stop believing them. It says as much about your character as it does theirs.
"I just wonder how many times you need someone to lie to you before stop believing them. It says as much about your character as it does theirs."
This comment rings a bell regarding another matter... oh yeah, that whole Christian religion and that Jesus Christ fellow...
@bghs
I'll trust a cop long before some wife beater criminal..that's for damn sure. Are there bad cops out there? I'm sure there are. There are a helluva lot more bad people out there. 99% of these people get killed or hurt because they simply ignore an officers command. I'll guarantee you that whatever command the cop gave this thug, it was ignored.
You criminal apologists are sickening. I learned long ago. A cops says "stop", I stop. A cop says "don't move", I don't move. I was raised to respect cops and any commands they give me. Period. Now, you want to get yourself killed by acting belligerent, hostile, confrontational with a cop...be my guest. It's a nice thinning of the dumb herd.
@gmag guess what my man. I was one of the "old time coppers" that saw all the changes until I retired 3 years ago. Guess who took all those things away from the Police ie saps, sap gloves, billy clubs etc etc ....the crying public saying oh my the Police should be allowed to wear or carry those things that would have knocked a person out their shoes (it was to violent) so now the Police who are much better trained in the use of force and more concious of it also from back than do what they are trained to do. Believe me no Officer hits the streets wanting to get into a physical confrontation especially where a life may or is taken. For a person to comment on the life of a copper but has never walked a beat thru a dark alley alone at the wee hours of the morning where evil lurks...you should just hush and leave the work to the professionals or sign up.
"When "Officers" arrived." That would mean there were at least two officers at the scene. So, they had to shot this guy, because he had a screwdriver, perhaps scissors too? Granted, he may have been out of control and possibly on drugs... but can't two big cops take a person down with shooting them? See it on Cops all the time.. Think it may be time for a new chief of police... and a little better training for Metro Cops... Perhaps send them to remedial training like the crack shot TSA employees went to.
TomD1228:
You trust cops more than "some wife beater criminal."
Keep in mind that those labeling citizens as "criminals" ARE the cops and D.A.'s (like our friend who got pinched buying coke and rolling with a dirty gun, or the Henderson chick who smashed up a couple cars after drinking "bottles" of wine at 2:00 in the afternoon.)
I guess reality is in the eye of the beholder. Frankly, at this point, I have absolutely no faith in the word of the law enforcement community.
The x26 Taser that police carry has the capability of recording a "gun sight" video. Police vehicle dash cams have been in use throughout the world for decades. There are even commercially available helmet cameras (you know, the ones that the SEALS used to record the Bin Laden raid) that can be attached to a cop to record every single second of their duty day.
Yet we have no video of the cops allegedly tasering their latest victim "two times with no effect." There are no dash cam videos of cops shooting fleeing suspects in the back. There are no helmet cam videos of police shooting unarmed, kneeling suspects in their heads. Or choking mentally troubled individuals to death in their backyards.
Why not?
After all of the questionable killings at the hands of Metro, after all of the payouts, all of the denials of wrongdoing, all of the entrenchment behind "officer safety," Metro still refuses to do what thousands of progressive police departments across the world have done and record officer's behavior on the job.
That's just one issue. Drug testing? Nope. Blood testing for alcohol after crashes? Nope.
Civilian review boards? Nope.
There is absolutely no accountability in Metro. None. Until serious and widespread reforms in police policy take place, reasonable people throughout this community will continue to lack faith and confidence in the actions of the police and will continue to doubt the integrity of their actions, especially when they take a life.
l wonder if the use of force continuum is part of the training for law enforcement officers in LV. I certainly hope so. Having said that, so many situations are beyond training and domestic disputes are one of the most dangerous events in a police officer's routine.
@TomD1228...Let's break down you lunacy.
"I'll trust a cop long before some wife beater criminal..that's for damn sure." The only reason you even have to suspect that the man was a wife beating criminal is because a cop tells you.
LUNACY
"Are there bad cops out there? I'm sure there are. There are a helluva lot more bad people out there." FACT: Cops are suspects in criminal activity at the SAME RATE as the general public.
Lunacy
"I was raised to respect cops and any commands they give me." If a cop says drop to you knees and please him orally, will you do it? Are you raising your kids to do the same. If so you are a bad parent. Cops are 300% more likely to sexually assualt someone than members of the general public. That's 3x times more likely to take advantage of your kids. And no wonder. You are a bad parent who make it easier for them.
LUNACY
"It's a nice thinning of the dumb herd." Be careful what you wish for. Because if knowing the facts about things was the basis for thinning the heard then your name is on top of the list.
LUNACY
Thinning the heard. Isn't that what the Nazi's did? what happened in Kosovo? what's going on in Darfur and Rowanda? At least you framed you opinion through your admiration of those activities.
LUNACY
There are those people out there that do not believe the police have the right to shoot anyone at anytime anywhere but I bet if those who think this had a stranger break into their house they would shoot and ask questions later if the home owner had a gun.
Don't ever call the police unless your life is in immediate danger. The less contact you have with law enforcement, the better your life will be.
If this lady was about to be killed, then the cops did what they had to do. If it was a show of drama... Well, I guess she'll be questioning that 911 call decision for a long time.
We simply don't know enough from this article to commend or condemn the officer's actions. He may have saved an innocent life. He may have made a tragic mistake.
Metro has a huge reserve fund. So large in fact, that the county commission is pulling some of it to help with the budget deficit. Before you get all excited, it is NOT like the state pulling counties money. Metro gets its operating funds from the city and county. This money could be used to fund the purchase of dash cams. The police union is opposed to dash cams because the officers don't want to be filmed. I wonder why?
Hey, buckie boy...
"blah, blah, blah."
I'll tell you what I know, bucko;
Any dang fool can spot a pattern.
When patterns like the one in question here develop,
EVERY SHOOT will be scrutinized...and rightly so.
"They took our toys away, so we can't beat people senseless anymore"...
Well, ain't that a shame!
buckiefan says:
"Police who are much better trained in the use of force and more concious of it also from back than do what they are trained to do."
When the police academy's 'training' new recruits they're at war, we should expect lots of killings huh?
"........but has never walked a beat thru a dark alley alone at the wee hours of the morning where evil lurks...you should just hush and leave the work to the professionals or sign up."
In my younger years I walked many dark alleys, no gun, no sap, no tazer, no billy club, no radio, no backup, no weapon of any kind, just smarts. Talk and persuasion goes a long way, Metro should look into it.
"leave the work to the professionals"....lol! Metro backed the murder of Trevon Cole who could have been arrested when he last sold pot to the detective, instead they recklessly kicked in his door, guns blazing with no regard for his neighbors, pregnant wife nor innocent child's safety. That's reckless, professionalism's earned, not handed out at the police academy.
Assume that the deceased was on drugs and was not listening even after being tasered and then the policemen were attacked by the deceased who was using the scissors as a weapon. Why did the policemen, the two of them, who were supposedly in
"mortal" danger, not shoot the attacker say in a limb or a spot where a fatality would not have occurred? Were these policemen not qualified with their weapons? Were these policemen blind? I don't know, however, it does seem that the policemen over reacted by shooting the attacker in a spot to cause a fatality. Does not the Las Vegas Police Dept. teach their policemen how to handle situations such as this, without causing a fatality? It does not seem so, does it; doesn't really matter as he was just an ordinary citizen or maybe illegal.
Good job metro. Keep up the GREAT work...
I dont think they were in the wrong in this situation.
I have to say though, I am definitely not calling the police for any reason what so ever...
Hey - dead men tell no tales! He reached for an officer's taser so instead of doing the 'swarm', let's just pull out our gun and shoot him. Irresponsible police work in a corrupted department. Perhaps it's time for Steve Sisolak to investigate Metro and their sick leave use amongst other things!
Listening to what cops tell you, especially in this town is probably a good idea for self preservation.
There is no question after all of these shootings that this is how these officers are trained to handle these situations. I do find it comical though that the posters here can judge so quickly. Especially considering that if they were in this house with this guy there would be an assortment of activity happening in their under roos.
Its a tough job for sure and Metro certainly has earned the scrutiny it receives. Maybe we can flip the script and pay the cops the fire salaries and increase the qualifications for Metro to something more than a GED and experience fighting in wars.
Put them on leave without pay, maybe they won't be so quick to shoot.
It seems like when you call the police, you might as well call the coroner as well..Why waste time?
Next time someone is holding you hostage with a knife on your throat for all the cop haters out there please ask the Police Officer please sir dont pull out your gun I want you talk this man out of killing me. Dont do anything that may harm this nice person. Oh and if you do have to shoot this person please shoot him in the foot so it dont really hurt him to bad...What a joke...most of you need to get a grip on life's reality and stop your tired old arm chair quarterbacking of a job that none you have a clue about. Police work is not a "pretty" job. At times there is severe and fatal violence on both ends. The sheep want the sheep dog to protect the timid and the weak but they dont want the dog to bite.
And @gmag you were the one not me that suggested the use of "the toys" of the old days...and @MikeT Im not sure what urban city you walked the beat in but is sounds like you are enjoying a pension check from a job where the only thing you had to worry about was not stepping in cotton candy after they locked the gates of that amusement park.
@ buckiefan.."The sheep want the sheep dog to protect the timid and the weak but they dont want the dog to bite." Things is. I am not a sheep. And the time I had a knife to my throat the two cops I called my friends drew their weapons and took an honest assessment of the situation. There was no rush. I knew, as well as the escapee who held me that I was only of use to him if he didn't harm me. And luckily my friends were well trained and arrived at the same conclusion. While they had every right to do so, they calmly deescalated the situation and no lives were lost that day. While I understand that sometimes police have to take lives, I want to be sure that when they do, it was truly the last resort. I want to know that the choices officers made were not motivated by the hyper vigilance the Metro cultivates in each and every one of its officers. Just once I would like to hear how demanding an honest and accountable police force is considered 'cop hating.'
@bghs1986 lucky you survived without injury. First of all I never ever said that the Police shouldn not be held accountable for their actions. The Police are probably the most watched and scrutinized profession that there is. That is evident every day and shines on these post by the I watch TV and know how cops should act crowd. I never said that using deadly force should not be a last resort. It is and always been that way since I began in LE. There were many times that I was involved in a deadly force situation and chose not to use deadly force and I was lucky that I still won. Than I put up with the critics that said I didn't use the proper force and they didn't want to tell my parents I was dead due to a wrong decision. Finally I sure would like to know where you got the facts that the Police were 300 percent more likely to committ a sexual assault than the general public. This is a new one on me and I seriously doubt that it is any where near the truth and hope that you can back up that statement. And what exactly to you mean the Police are 3 x more likely to take advantage of your kids? I would also like to see some type of factual study reference to show that point you made. If you can't provide some factual proof ie FBI Uniform Crime reporting statistics I suggest I keep those comments to yourself.
Hey bghs1986 I found maybe where your got the information from. The I hate the establishment legalize marijuana web site made for interesting reading. Hope you have better proof than that one...