Giblin said that police do not believe the school was a target in the shooting. The shooting took place across the street from the Black Box Theater on the campus of the Las Vegas Academy of the Arts, a Clark County School District secondary school at 315 7th Street.Īs is standard protocol, police contacted the school district which had the school locked down temporarily, he said. When officers conducted a welfare check inside the apartment, they found a man suffering from a gunshot wound to the head, and he was pronounced dead at the scene, Giblin said.Ī man taken into custody is considered a person of interest in the homicide investigation, which was in its preliminary stages, Giblin said.

“Officers were able to locate that subject matching the description provided by witnesses by an adjacent apartment,” Giblin said. Bill Giblin said at a news conference near the scene. (Rachel Aston/Las Vegas Review-Journal) man was killed in an early morning shooting Thursday inside an apartment across from a high school in downtown Las Vegas, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.Īt about 6:50 a.m., police dispatchers received calls about multiple gunshots heard in the 400 block of 10th Street near Lewis Avenue, and witnesses told police they saw an a man firing a gun in the area, police Lt.

Police at the scene of a shooting that left one victim dead in the 400 block of South 10th street in Downtown Las Vegas, Thursday, Nov.

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