On October 30, 1993, Elvis impersonator Dana Mackay and Mary Huffman were discovered shot to death by Las Vegas Metro Police officers.

The officers were asked to do a welfare check by a mutual friend. The friend had been unable to make contact with the couple for several days.

Apparently, Dana and Mary spent the day shopping and were returning to their home at 3624 Edmund, when they were confronted by the suspect, or suspects, as they entered the house.

It is believed that the couple walked in on a burglary in progress.

Anyone with information is urged call LV Metro Homicide Cold Case Detail at 702-828-COLD.

Nevada ranks ninth in African American homicide victimization according to a report released Tuesday by The Violence Policy Center.

The annual study, “Black Homicide Victimization in the United States: An Analysis of 2005 Homicide Data,” uses 2005 data — the most recent data available from the FBI — and ranks the 50 states according to their black homicide victimization rates.

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On Wednesday, January 16, 911 dispatchers received a medical call about a 16-year-old bleeding from her head.

When medical personnel arrived, they discovered that the teen had been shot. She died at the scene.

Homicide detectives were called and they interviewed witnesses at the scene.

According to witnesses, 20-year-old Omar Rodriguez, an ex-boyfriend of the victim, was seen near the victim’s apartment just prior to the shots being heard.

Rodriguez was located in the northeast area of Las Vegas and was taken into custody without incident.

Omar Rodriguez was booked into the Clark County Detention Center for murder with use of a deadly weapon.

Rodriguez also had two outstanding arrest warrants for attempt murder with use of a deadly weapon and battery with use of a deadly weapon, from an incident that occurred in November 2007.

The November incident involved Rodriguez stabbing the victims new boyfriend.

The victim has been identified as 16-year-old Katherine Jimenez. She lived in Las Vegas and died of multiple gunshot wounds.

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Jimenez was pregnant when she was killed. The coroner’s office has ruled the death of her fetus as a homicide.

On Wednesday, January 16th, police got a call from a 16-year-old teen saying that she had just arrived home from school to find her one month old sister alone and crying inside the house.

When she could not find her mother, she looked in the garage and found her mother on the ground.

The woman was unresponsive with a 6″ metal rod spike in her head. The woman, a single mother of five children, was transported to UMC Trauma where she later died of her injuries.

Metro Homicide Detectives were called out to the scene to investigate.

The investigation lead detectives to look for and question the victims boyfriend, Jesse Lucio.

He was found inside a house in northeast Las Vegas.

Jesse was interviewed by Homicide Detectives and confessed to the crime.

He was arrested and transported to the Clark County Detention Center and booked for murder with the use of a deadly weapon.

The victim has been identified at 42-year-old Jana Adams. She was a mother of five children ranging in age from 22-years-old to one month. She also had three grandchildren.

Funeral Services will be held at the LDS Church on Thursday, January 24 at 12:00 p.m. The church is located at 375 N. Hollywood Blvd.

In lieu of Flowers, the family asks that donations be made to one of the trust accounts that have been set up for the family — the Jana Lindsey Adams and Girls Memorial Fund at the Bank of Nevada or the Jana Lindsey Walls Adams at the IBEW Plus Credit Union.

A five hour domestic dispute – turned stand off, ended with police killing a man.  It ended in Henderson but it started in northwest Las Vegas.

Police say the 46-year-old man fired shots at his stepdaughter around midnight. He then drove away from the house.

Police spotted his car near the Spaghetti Bowl heading south on U.S. 95. Officers chased him and during the pursuit, they say he shot at them.

The man got off the freeway and was stopped in the middle of the intersection of Marks and Sunset.

For five hours he got in and out of his vehicle with a gun – telling officers he wanted them to shoot him. Metro’s SWAT Team tried to negotiate with the man and take him into custody.

At about 5:00 a.m., police say he pointed the gun at an officer. They fired one shot, killing him. Metro says police had no other option.

“Police nationally are not very successful once an individual becomes bent on being killed by the police – determined to be killed by police,” said Metro Deputy Chief Ted Moody.

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Police do not believe drugs or alcohol were involved. The suspect was retired military.

The officer, 35-year-old Peter Montesanti, will be on routine administrative leave while police investigate the incident. He is an 11 year veteran of Metro and assigned to the SWAT detail.

The person shot by police has been identified as 45-year-old Brian Ramirez. He lived in Las Vegas.

Henderson Police shot and killed a 53-year-old man they say was coming at them with a gun.

It happened at about 10:35 a.m. Officers noticed a man in the desert area near Equestrian and Foothill. Police say the man looked suspicious as he got into a vehicle.

The officers began following the car and ran the plates. The car turned out to be stolen back in September in Las Vegas.

Officers pulled the man over in the Walgreen’s parking lot on Boulder Highway and Racetrack.

Police say the suspect got out of the car with a gun and approached officers aggressively. One officer fired at the man an unknown amount of times.

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The man was hit and transported to St. Rose de Lima hospital where he died.

The officer, James Tetzlaff, has been placed on paid administrative leave pending a coroner’s inquest.

Tetzlaff was involved in another officer involved shooting in 2001, where he shot a man charging at him with a knife. He was found justified in that shooting.

Henderson Police detectives are investigating the shooting.

The person killed has been identified as 53-year-old Glenn Jeffery Spyer. He died of multiple gunshot wounds.

At about 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, January 12th, North Las Vegas Police were called to the area of Mayflower and Martin Luther King to investigate a reported deceased person.

When they arrived, officers found a deceased man with mutiple gunshot wounds. The victim was found inside a black Dodge Durango that was parked on the south side of the road.

The coroner has identified the man as 34-year-old Cornell Joshua. He lived in North Las Vegas.

Police are still investigating and ask anyone with information to call CrimeStoppers.

Metro is investigating a shooting that left one person dead and three more injured.

The shooting happened late Friday night near Torrey Pines and Charleston at about 10 p.m.

Police say they received numerous 911 calls reporting shots being fired. When officers arrived, they discovered a black male, later identified as 26-year-old Bobby Guss, who had died from several gun shot wounds.

Three others people, a 16-year-old juvenile, 17-year-old juvenile and a 20-year-old adult were also shot. They were transported to UMC with moderate injuries.

Homicide detectives were called and began the investigation. They found that the victims were in an alley when they were approached by two men. One of the men, described as a Hispanic male, approximately 5′9″, wearing a grey hooded sweatshirt, pulled out a handgun and began firing at the group.

The two men then left on foot and were seen leaving the area in a 1990’s Chevy Silverado extended cab truck, described as brown or copper color with a light colored center strip.

Police ask anyone with information to call CrimeStoppers.