Archive for the ‘Henderson’ Category
 
February 29, 2008 - Tomiyasu Lane & Sunset Road
Friday, March 7th, 2008

missing_woman_180.jpgMariela 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.

——UPDATED——

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

 
February 12, 2008 - Sunridge Heights and Pecos Ridge
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

ois_icecream_03_180.jpgA 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.

Why list people killed by police?

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.

 
January 17, 2008 - Marks Street & Sunset
Thursday, January 17th, 2008

ois_02.jpgA 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.

Why list people killed by police?

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.

 
January 16, 2008 - Boulder Highway and Racetrack
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

ois_01.jpgHenderson 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.

Why list people killed by police?

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.