LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — A man fatally shot by police in downtown Las Vegas on Thursday had entered an apartment building with a long gun and said he was going to kill people, police say.
That's according to Capt. Kurt McKenzie of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department's Office of Internal Oversight and Constitutional Policing, who provided an initial statement on the shooting.
While the shooting is still under investigation, McKenzie said police believe the man may have been a resident at the apartment building where he was shot, near 9th Street and Ogden Avenue.
Officers arriving at the apartment building were met by the man holding the long gun. McKenzie said the officers commanded him "several" times to drop the weapon before he "pointed a firearm at officers, causing them to discharge their weapons."
Medical personnel dispatched to the complex would pronounce the man deceased at the scene. As of this report, he had not been publicly identified.
No police officers were injured during this incident, McKenzie noted.
The officers involved were identified on June 22 as Officer Matthew Kravetz and Officer Andrew Buckland. Kravetz, 35, has been with the department since 2015, and Buckland, 39, has been employed with LVMPD since 2017.
Both officers have been placed on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of an investigation into this incident.
This incident is the second officer-involved shooting in the Las Vegas valley on Thursday. It happened just a few hours after Henderson police officers shot a man after receiving reports he'd pointed a gun at someone in a residential neighborhood.
