UNDERCEPT. An officer killed in a shootout with a suspect who pointed a pistol to the beholder – Police News

By Akia Dylan, Brian Horvat
Las Vegas Review-Journal

North Las Vegas, Nev. – A police officer in North Las Vegas was shot dead and killed on Tuesday. The person who shot the officer was also killed when the officer fired back, although he was shot several times, police said.

“With heavy hearts, we are grieving for the passage of one of the best in North Las Vegas,” said the head of the police station in North Las Vegas Jacqueline Gravt. “Police officers choose this line of work because they want to protect and serve the community, knowing the risks and challenges that come with the badge. Our thoughts and prayers come out to the officer’s family, friends and his brotherhood in blue. “

According to a police report in North Las Vegas, employees responded shortly before 2:15 pm Tuesday to a signal for a man aimed at another person in the 4700 block of High Creek Drive, near the Lone Mountain Road and Camino Al Norte.

When officers arrived, he “ignored commands” and fled, police said. An employee located on the man who was armed with a gun and ordered him to show his hands, the news said.

Officer returned fire, although he was shot several times

“The topic ignored the officer’s commands and approached the officer and a firing exchange followed,” the announcement said. “The officer was hit repeatedly during the exchange, but managed to return the fire by hitting the subject.”

Both were taken to the University Medical Center. The employee who was taken to the hospital in a critical condition died. The person who shot the officer also died, police said.

None of their names was provided on Tuesday.

North Las Vegas police said the identity of the employees involved in the shooting would be released after 72 hours.

Near the shooting site, a resident of the Tony Cooper neighborhood said she had heard several rifles and then police sirens.

“I heard the shots and there were so many of them,” Cooper said. Later, Cooper said, she learned from a neighbor who called 911 that someone had thrown rocks and smeared weapons on the street.

“All our neighbors are truly upset about it,” Cooper said. “I don’t want to see that someone has been taken down the street. Something must be done for people – people who do not live here – enter this neighborhood and are violent. “

Employees gather in hospital

Meanwhile, uniformed police officers gathered in front of the main public entrance of UMC on Tuesday afternoon and evening and could be seen hugging each other.

At 8:00 pm, more than a hundred people, including soldiers from the Nevada highway patrol, as well as officers from the Sofia Police Department, the Clark County Police Department, the Henderson Police Department and the Boulder Police Department, arrived at the hospital. Firefighters from the Las Vegas fire department were also available.

Shortly before 10:00 pm Law enforcement officers, some in uniform, and others in street clothes, lined a pedestrian walkway to a white van outside the hospital.

The officer’s body is then loaded into a van that left the hospital against the background of a procession of dozens of vehicles on the east to the Corrro Corronron’s office.

It was the first firing of the police station in North Las Vegas since 2025.

According to the Memorial Officer’s page, the last death of North Las Vegas officer is detective Chad William Park, who died on January 7, 2017, from injuries suffered in A head crash in the previous day previousS

Other law enforcement officers who have been killed while they have been out of duty in recent years include:

An employee of the Capital Police Department, Kolton Pullsper, who was killed in a crash with the wrong driver on December 12, 2024.

Nevada Highway patrol SGT. Michael Abbot and Trooper Alberto Felix, who were killed by a disturbed driver of shock and running on November 30, 2023.

An employee of the Sofia Police Department of Tai Tai, 49, who was shot to death while responding to a home call for interference on the path of Eastern Flamingo in Las Vegas on October 13, 2022.

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