LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Police are investigating a shooting involving an officer early Friday morning about one mile west of the Las Vegas Strip. This is the second officer-involved shooting in the past two days.
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The shooting was reported shortly after 1 a.m. and involved a traffic stop of an unregistered vehicle near Valley View Boulevard and Twain Avenue. Those roads remain closed to traffic as police conduct an investigation.
“At one point, a passenger in the vehicle fled on foot, causing a foot pursuit to be initiated between the officer and the suspect,” Captain Ryan Wiggins with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said.
The suspect ran and hid behind a vehicle, “and was reaching into his waistband, and officers believed him to be armed,” according to Wiggins. No details were released on whether a weapon was found on the suspect.
Wiggins said the officers gave verbal commands to the suspect to surrender, which were not followed, and a low-lethal option was used on the suspect, which was ineffective…