Las Vegas Sun

March 28, 2024

Metro IDs officer who shot suspect in 7-Eleven robbery

The Metro Police officer who shot a suspect during an armed robbery Tuesday at a northwest valley convenience store has been identified as 34-year-old Steven Lehmann.

Lehmann, an officer in Bolden Area Command’s patrol division, has been employed by Metro since February 2009. He’s been placed on paid administrative leave, standard procedure for officer-involved shootings, police said.

The shooting happened about 2 a.m. Tuesday at 7-Eleven, 2003 N. Jones Blvd., which is near Lake Mead Parkway.

Police said Lehmann was in the store’s parking lot when two customers came out of the store and told him an armed robbery was taking place inside.

Lehmann went into the 7-Eleven, where he saw a man pointing a .38-caliber handgun at a clerk, police said. The suspect then pointed the gun at Lehmann, prompting Lehmann to fire several rounds and strike the suspect, police said.

The suspect — identified as 19-year-old Lawrence Howard of Las Vegas — was transported to University Medical Center in stable but critical condition, police said. Additional officers found a second suspect, an unarmed 17-year-old, hiding under the counter and placed him in custody, police said.

The juvenile was booked into the Clark County Juvenile Detention Center on counts of robbery and burglary with a deadly weapon and conspiracy to commit robbery, police said. Howard, while in the hospital, was booked in abstentia on the same counts, plus assault of a police officer with a deadly weapon, police said. Howard has since been incarcerated in the Clark County Detention Center, where he is being held on $100,000 bond.

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