On Monday, The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) released video and information to the media about a violent stabbing of one of its officers, followed by five explosive gunshots that neutralized and killed the aggressor, 25-year-old Sandra Lopez-Ochoa. The information on the stabbing – and shooting – and the video came at a news conference at LVMPD headquarters in downtown Las Vegas.
A woman who was gunned down last week by Vegas police investigating a complaint slashed an officer in the head before she was killed by another officer, according to body-camera footage shown to reporters Monday
Sandra Lopez-Ochoa wielded a kitchen knife with an overhand motion to wound the officer as he began to pull her by the wrist from a seat on a couch in an East Las Vegas apartment, according to the video.
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A Las Vegas woman was shot and killed Friday in an officer-involved shooting after stabbing a Metro officer in the head, police said. According to Assistant Sheriff Sasha Larkin, the LVMPD were called to the 3600 block of East Lake Mead Boulevard near Pecos Road after a man called 911 and […]