Separate shootings during protest leave Metro officer on life support, suspect dead

[still_one]

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Protests Monday night turned violent leaving a Las Vegas police officer fighting for his life and a suspect in a second shooting dead.

Metro police sources confirm to 8 News Now that a Las Vegas Metropolitan Police officer who was shot in the head near Circus Circus late Monday night is on life support at UMC.

According to Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo who held a news conference at 3 a.m., police were attempting to disperse protesters in front of Circus Circus Hotel & Casino when people in the crowd began throwing bottles and rocks at the officers and the officers began to take some people into custody.

A source told 8 News Now, as one officer was in a struggle with a protester, another person walked up and shot the officer in the back of the head. The shooting suspect was taken into custody around 2 a.m.

“This is a sad night for our LVMPD family and a tragic night for our community,” Lombardo said.

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A separate shooting involving police left a man dead near the Lloyd George Federal Building on Las Vegas Boulevard.

According to Sheriff Lombardo, “At approximately 11:22 p.m., officers encountered a subject who was armed with multiple firearms and appeared to be wearing body armor,” Lombardo said. “During the interaction the subject reached for a firearm and the officers engaged him The suspect was struck by gunfire and transported to the hospital where he was pronounced deceased.”

https://www.8newsnow.com/news/local-news/metro-sources-metro-officer-shot-in-the-head-at-circus-circus-working-another-shooting-in-front-of-federal-courthouse/

[Bayard]

1. Person walked up and shot the officer in the back of the head.

The article doesn't say, but I'm guessing their suspect is an out-of-town white guy.

[still_one]

2. Most likely, but there isn't very much information so it is still an evolving story

[dware]

3. Then your guess would be wrong.

https://www.ktnv.com/news/las-vegas-police-officer-shot-during-protest-on-monday-night

4:10 P.M. UPDATE: The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department has released the mug shot of the suspect in the shooting of officer Shay Mikalonis and identified him as 20-year-old Edgar Samaniego.

LVMPD Homicide Detectives said they responded to the scene and located video surveillance of the suspect firing a handgun at the officers as he walked down the street.

Detectives say they tracked Samaniego to a motel located across the street from the shooting, where SWAT Officers responded and took Samaniego into custody.

Samaniego was transported to the Clark County Detention Center and booked on one count of Attempt Murder on a Police Officer and two counts of Unlawful Discharging of a Firearm

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