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Published Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013 | 8:05 a.m.
Updated Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013 | 9:21 a.m.
Two people suffered life-threatening injuries after a shooting was reported early Wednesday at a parking garage off the Las Vegas Strip, Metro Police said. A third person was found nearby with minor injuries, police said.
Initial reports that the shooting took place in the foyer of the Regal UA Showcase Theatre 8 were inaccurate, but the shooting occurred nearby, Metro Police Officer Laura Meltzer said.
Just after midnight Wednesday morning, police received calls of gunshots at a parking garage in the 3700 block of South Las Vegas Boulevard, Meltzer said.
When police arrived, Meltzer said, one victim was found in the garage elevator lobby and a second victim was in an elevator on the fifth floor with apparent gunshot wounds. They were both transported to University Medical Center with life-threatening injuries, police said.
Meltzer said a third victim was found near the street with minor injuries.
“It is believed the victims and the suspects knew each other and were involved in an ongoing dispute,” Meltzer said. “This was not a random shooting.”
She said it was unclear how many people were involved.
Meltzer said police believe two groups of people — the victims and an unknown number of suspects — had a verbal altercation earlier Tuesday evening at a different location, before the shooting.
There were no further details released about the suspects, and Meltzer said there were no indications the shooting was gang related.
Anyone with information is urged to contact Metro at 828-5634 or to remain anonymous, contact Crime Stoppers by phone at 385-5555 or at crimestoppersofnv.com.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
It's your 2nd amendment right and I support that...but yeesh, we just have too many losers walking around with guns. Way too many. Are they all criminals prior to these actions or are we selling guns to people who, simply put, should not have a gun?
Tighten the restrictions, IQ tests, mental health tests...something to weed out these losers.
Its the losers with guns is the problem. I bet we wont hear that the firearm was not registered. Criminals have unregistered guns.
Tom yes we have to many losers walking around with guns because we have to many criminals in our society. Do you really think a criminal is going to take an iq and mental health test to buy his gun? Gang bangers and criminals steal their guns or have people with clean records buy the guns for them. They're criminals and carry guns illegally. Do you really think this person had a Concealed Firearms Permit? I have one and I had to take an 8 hour class, submit to a thorough background check, take a qualifying test and had to go to the police station to get my fingerprints and picture taken. Do you really think a criminal is going to do all that? Of course not they just carry their illegal guns on them and dont care about laws.
no getting around it the strip is becoming a dangerous place to be
The casinos must be late on their metro hush money.
FWIW:
It can be contended that Nevada's firearm CCW permit process/requirement is an unconstitutional infringement upon citizenry's rights -- like Vermont, Alaska, Arizona and Colorado, Nevada should move towards adopting "constitutional carry" allowing weapon concealment free from permits/licensing requirements.
(b) "Keep arms" was, in colonial times, a common way of referring to possession, and to "bear arms" simply meant "to carry." (128 S.Ct. 2791, 171 L.Ed.2d 651.) Neither phrase applied only to carrying weapons in an organized military unit. The phrase "bear arms" also had an idiomatic meaning that was significantly different: i.e., to serve as a soldier, do military service, fight, or wage war. However, "bear arms" unequivocally had that idiomatic meaning only when followed by the preposition "against," followed by the target of the hostilities. Without that preposition, "bear arms" meant, as it continues to mean today, carrying a weapon on the person for the purpose of being ready for offensive or defensive action in case of a conflict with another person. (128 S.Ct. 2793, 2794, 171 L.Ed.2d 653, 654.)
Refs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutio...
http://www.witkin.com/pages/recent_dev_p...
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In the majority decision in the 2008 Supreme Court case of District of Columbia v. Heller, Justice Antonin Scalia wrote;
"Like most rights, the Second Amendment right is not unlimited. It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose: For example, concealed weapons prohibitions have been upheld under the Amendment or state analogues ... The majority of the 19th-century courts to consider the question held that prohibitions on carrying concealed weapons were lawful under the Second Amendment or state analogues
FWIW:
For those interested in a color coded map of the US depicting how State laws have changed with regard to Right-to-Carry firearm laws from 1986 to present --
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rtc.gi...
You're welcome.
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If only these people who got shot had guns, then they could of.. well..