LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — The Las Vegas Metro Police Department addressed the public about an officer-involved shooting that happened Friday, Oct. 18 in the west valley.
Watch the full press conference here
Just before 9 p.m., officers received reports of a person sleeping in a car for several hours at the parking lot of a business on the 4900 block of Fort Apache Road.
When officers were en route to the scene, they got an update that 39-year-old Lindsey Harris left the parking lot and made her way to a gas station near the 3900 block of West Flamingo.
Officers and air units were notified that Harris may be armed and dangerous due to outstanding warrants in the past. Both the air unit and officers on the ground arrived at the same time.
When Harris saw officers, she got into the car and sped away. During the chase, she made her way to a neighborhood nearby— leaving her car behind and running away on foot.
Las Vegas officer, Xaview MacNeill, chased after her as she hid behind a pillar near a home— asking her to stop. MacNeill said she reached into her purse and began running again. She went around a home and hid in a bush.
MacNeill said she threw an object, later known to be a cellphone, on the ground as he held Harris at gunpoint.
He then said he saw her pull out a gun and aim it at him— causing him to fire four rounds towards her.
Here is bodycam footage of the moments leading up to the shooting
She was not hurt. Harris continued to run away into the backyard of another home and barricaded herself in a shed.
Two hours later, police said she peacefully surrendered. She was arrested on one charge of residential burglary.
MacNeill has been employed with LVMPD since 2020 and is assigned to the Community Safety Division of the Summerlin Area Command. He has been placed on paid administrative leave while the shooting is investigated.
This marks the 12th officer-involved shooting this year by LVMPD.
