LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — New details about an officer-involved shooting, along with body camera footage, that left a robbery suspect critically injured were shared on Monday morning during an LVMPD press conference.
Assistant Sheriff James Seebock led the briefing and identified both officers involved with the shooting. The officers were identified as 26-year-old Officer Justin Garcia, who has been with LVMPD since 2018, and 29-year-old Officer Jacob Barr, who has been with LVMPD since 2015.
Preliminary investigation, Seebock said, revealed that Garcia fired 12 rounds during the incident with his issued 9mm handgun, while Barr — also armed with a 9mm handgun fired four rounds.
ORIGINAL REPORT: Officer-involved shooting leaves one suspect of stolen vehicle in critical condition
Metro police received calls from a business at approximately 6:06 p.m., stating that three females had walked into the store — one with a firearm — and began stealing merchandise. The caller told Metro that the women had fled the store in a black Mercedes.
Officers located the black Mercedes and identified that it had been stolen from another local business on Feb. 28.
According to initial reports, officers attempted to conduct a traffic stop on a stolen vehicle when the vehicle accelerated and fled the area, prompting a vehicle pursuit. Assistant Sheriff Seebock says that the vehicle entered US-95 and officers pursued the vehicle southbound towards Henderson.
Officers deployed a tire-deflation device at US-95 and Russell Road, which the vehicle drove over and exited the freeway onto Sunset Road.
The pursuit ended when the suspects crashed into a "civilian vehicle" near Stephanie Street and Sunset Road. One suspect — identified as 31-year-old Lorraine Alvarado — exited the vehicle after the crash with a handgun and began to run from police.
Officer Garcia and Barre pursued Alvarado on foot and discharged their weapons when Alvarado pointed her weapon at both officers after being instructed to drop the weapon multiple times.
Body camera footage shows Alvarado falling to the ground after being shot by Officer Barr and slowly dropping the weapon.
Alvarado was transported immediately to a local hospital with critical injuries, where she was booked in absentia at Clark County Detention Center on charges of robbery with a deadly weapon, grand larceny of a vehicle and resisting a public officer with a firearm, among others.
Assistant Sheriff Seebock also identified Alvarado's prior felony convictions, which include a burglary charge in 2018, a robbery with a deadly weapon charge in 2016, conspiracy to commit robbery in 2011 and a robbery charge in 2011.
Record show that Alvarado was also arrested in February 2023 for theft, but was released after entering a plea deal in court.
"That picture, though, should aggravate this community," Assistant Sherriff Seebock said during the briefing. "That picture is a suspect who has no regard for the consequences of her actions."
As of Monday morning, Alvarado is still in the hospital in critical condition.
