Vegas police kill armed suspect - Elko Daily Free Press
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A 25-year-old ex-convict who was killed by Las Vegas police last weekend was turning with a gun in his hand toward the officer who shot him twice in the back as they ran into an industrial area of North Las Vegas, a police... James Marcus Brown III collapsed following the 3:17 a. m. Saturday shooting in a vacant lot telling the officer, Walter Young II, not to shoot him again and he wasn't going to run anymore, Las Vegas police Undersheriff Kevin McMahill told... Young was in uniform and had been driving an unmarked police vehicle, McMahill said. Young reported seeing Brown run from the back seat of a gold Buick LeSabre sedan stopped during a theft investigation by a marked police cruiser near the Cheyenne Avenue overpass to Interstate 15, McMahill said. Police aired audio of Brown giving chase on Losee Road and radioing to a dispatcher that he saw Brown drop a gun as he ran. In a briefing recorded and posted to the Internet, McMahill said Young tried first to use a stun gun to stop Brown before firing two shots. He said police knew Brown was a gang member from the Southern California city of Lancaster who served prison time on convictions for receiving stolen property and possession of a stolen vehicle. Source: elkodaily.com
