Thursday, July 06, 2006

shooting on the strip.

I can't even tell you how many times I've been at this intersection. From the Las Vegas Review-Journal:

Strip shooting stuns tourists
Police detail officer-involved fatality

By FRANCIS MCCABE

Traffic was stopped on Las Vegas Boulevard at Flamingo Road after an officer-involved shooting Tuesday night.

Under the bright lights of the Strip, crowds of Fourth of July revelers watched what several said they thought was the filming of the latest television episode of CSI.

But the gunshot fired by a Las Vegas police officer was real, and so was the blood on Las Vegas Boulevard.

Tarance Deshon Hall, 31, of Las Vegas was pronounced dead at a hospital about 30 minutes after he was shot by an officer under the blinking orange and yellow lights of the Barbary Coast hotel and casino.
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