Las Vegas officials say one person was killed and six others were injured in a shooting at a Las Vegas apartment complex.
Las Vegas officials say one person was killed and six others were injured in a shooting at a Las Vegas apartment complex.
Six of her relatives were injured in an overnight shooting at a Las Vegas apartment complex, a woman said, minutes after police warned party-goers to leave a third-floor balcony late Thursday. Bullets fired.
“It just escalated. We were all drinking,” said Maria Guzmán, a tenant who lives next to an apartment where crime scene investigators spent Friday morning collecting evidence inside a unit and on a balcony.
“They told me to take my nephews in or someone was going to jail,” said Ms. Guzmán. The Associated Press, “I put them all in. Then, they pushed the door out.”
A woman who stopped to talk before taking her children to school said she saw at least 10 people on the balcony drinking and arguing for several hours before the fight broke out, and then shooting.
“Everybody was drunk,” said Nikki Paskevicius, facing the shooting scene outside a second-floor apartment. “Earlier, two people were fighting amongst themselves. Then someone stepped inside with a gun.”
Ms Pasquevicius said she heard eight shots: three, then two, then three more.
Ms. Guzman called the gathering a tattoo party. He declined to say what caused the bullets or identify the man who died, but said he was in his late 20s.
He said his injured nephew and cousin suffered multiple injuries in the legs, face, back, chest and arms. He refused to reveal their names.
Police said that during an altercation between neighbours, shots were fired at around 11:25 pm, the injured themselves went to the hospital and two were admitted in a critical condition.
Las Vegas Police spokesman Aidan Ocampo Gomez said at least two people opened fire and at least one suspect was being sought. The suspect was described only as an adult who was last seen dressed in black.
Mr Ocampo Gomez said he said he did not know if any of those injured in the shooting were suspects.
Porter Lamar Isaacs of the Las Vegas Strip hotel said he pays about $500 in rent every two weeks and has lived on the premises for three years. He said he was woken by a series of gunfire, and thought more than one gun had been fired.
A manager at the complex’s office declined to comment and ordered a reporter to be evicted from the property.
Records show that the sprawling complex has about 330 apartments in 10 two- and three-storey buildings. It is east of the Las Vegas Strip and close to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
The shooting happened less than a week later, when a 33-year-old man was killed and 13 injured during a private party in a crowded hookah lounge in a commercial hub east of the Strip early on February 26. Went.
One of the wounded, 44-year-old Lee Frank Wilson, was arrested on charges of murder and attempt to murder, and police have said additional arrests are expected.
A judge on Thursday ordered Wilson to remain in prison without bail, noting in court that Wilson is a convicted felon who was arrested 82 times since 1995 and served prison terms after his conviction in the 2019 shooting case. The sentence had been served.
Mr Wilson’s lawyer, Josh Tomashek, said his client planned to plead not guilty.