LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — Police are releasing further details surrounding the officer-involved shooting on Thursday that left one person dead.
This marked the ninth officer-involved shooting this year, and sixth fatal, in the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department's jurisdiction.
WATCH the full press conference with Assistant Sheriff Dori Koren here:
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said the shooting happened Friday morning at approximately 9:10 a.m. in the 5100 block of Rawhide Street, which is in the area of Tropicana Avenue and U.S. 95/Interstate 11.
Koren said this incident was initially reported as an auto burglary call.
Police identified the suspect as Kyle Wilson Norris, a 42-year-old Native American man.
Had he survived, Norris would have faced three counts of assault with a deadly weapon on a protected person and one count of resisting arrest with a deadly weapon, not a firearm.
