LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) – Police are investigating an officer-involved shooting in downtown Las Vegas on Thursday afternoon.
The shooting occurred in the 200 block of North 9th Street, between Ogden Street and Stewart Avenue.
Captain Kurt McKenize with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Office of Internal Oversight and Constitutional Policing provided more details during an afternoon media briefing. He explained that LVMPD dispatch initially received a call reporting “a subject in an apartment complex armed with a long gun.”
Officers responded to the scene and located the armed suspect and told him to drop the weapon. He reportedly refused and aimed the long gun at officers.
An unknown number of officers then fired at the suspect, hitting him. Medical personnel responded and the suspect was declared dead at the scene. No police officers were injured.
Captain McKenize added that it is not yet known if the suspect lived at the apartment complex in question. The public is advised to avoid the area as an investigation is ongoing.
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