On the morning of March 11, 2009, Henderson Police officers responded to the emergency room at St. Rose Siena Hospital. Police say 48-year-old Charles Campbell walked into the emergency room and told hospital staff he had a gun and wanted to kill himself.

A nurse called 911 and four Henderson Police officers arrived within minutes. The officers began evacuating the emergency room area and searching for Campbell.

Police say, two officers found Campbell in the emergency room area holding a gun. The officers ordered Campbell to drop his weapon, but he refused. Campbell then pointed the gun at the officers and they fired their weapons at him.

Campbell was struck once in the chest and hospital staff immediately began lifesaving procedures. The attempts to save Campbell’s life were unsuccessful.

No one else was injured.

Henderson Police are investigating the death of 32-year-old Matthew Cox. He was found dead in his home on December 22, 2008 near Horizon Ridge and Gibson.

Police say a friend went over to the house to care for Cox’s pets, as he was scheduled to be out of town. The friend found Cox unresponsive and called 911. Rescue workers arrived and found Cox was dead from blunt force trauma and neck injuries.

Henderson Police arrested two suspects in connection with the slaying. 18-year-old Jose Delatorre and a 17-year-old man were arrested and charged with murder, robbery and burglary.

Delatorre was booked into the Henderson Jail and the 17-year-old was booked into the Clark County Juvenile Detention Center.

Cox was a music teacher at Basic High School and taught the suspects. They are accused of beating and choking Cox and stealing electronics from his home and taking his car.

On the morning of September 23, Henderson Police Officers were called to a home in the 1600 block of Coyote Run after getting reports of a man found shot inside a house.

Police say 23-year-old Bilal Bunnery was found by the homeowners, who were not home at the time of the shooting. Bunnery was taken to St. Rose Siena, where he later died.

Police say Bunnery did not live at the house and the homeowners did not know him. No one is in custody in connection with the slaying and detectives are continuing the investigation.

Anyone with information is asked to contact the Henderson Police Department at 267-5000. Anyone who wishes to remain anonymous may call Crime Stoppers at 385-5555.

Mariela Moreno’s body was discovered near Sunset Park February 29, 2008. She had been missing since the early morning hours of January 1, 2008.

The 20-year-old vanished without a trace. Her boyfriend, Isidro Munoz, was the last person to see her alive. He told police he had dropped her off at her home after a New Year’s Eve party but pulled his car away before she walked into the house.

In a February interview, Henderson police raised their suspicions. “From the moment detectives started working this missing person’s case, we felt there were some suspicious circumstances,” said Henderson Police Information Officer Todd Rasmussen.

For the past week, the coroner’s office has been working to positivity confirm her identity.

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The Clark County Coroner says Moreno died of blunt force trauma to the head. Police are still investigating the case.

A valley woman has died after being shot by a Henderson Police Officer.

It started with Henderson Police pulling over a speeding ice cream truck driven by 65- year-old Zyber Selimaj.

According to police, the man became combative and did not want to sign the citation. Police thought there might be a language barrier.

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Police say he threatened officers and himself. Then he got his wife on the phone and she showed up in her ice cream truck, with her two children.

Police said she was irate and came out of the ice cream truck with a knife. She then held the knife to the throat of her young son. Police were able to get the child away from her and he was not hurt.

Officers then tried to use their Tasers to subdue her but they didn’t work.

Police say they then shot the woman after she made aggressive actions towards them. She was taken to Sunrise Trauma where she later died from her injuries.

The children were taken to Child Haven and are okay, but the husband is in jail, charged with obstruction of justice and his traffic citations.

The 23-year-old officer has been placed on routine administrative leave while the shooting is investigated.

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.