A property manager who shot and killed a man who police say broke into a homes will not be charged for the death. Metro says it was a case of self defense. Fox 5s Ophelia Young is live at the home where the deadly confrontation took place yesterday. Ophelia you spoke with the District Attorney today . Da Steve Wolfson says it doesnt matter whether its in your home a friends home or on the street if you feel your life is in danger you can use deadly force. In this case fox 5 was told the manager was punched several times in the face. If youre being punched if youre being attacked youre allowed to defend yourself and if youre are in a reasonable believe that serious Bodily Injury is going to occur youre allowed to use whatever force is necessary and often times thats deadly force. District attorney Steve Wolfson says in nevada a victim can fire a gun when danger as long as you have a reasonable belief that somebody is goign to commit a serious felony against you. Thursday afternooon righ
This was the scene thursday morning outside the home of fredrick leavitt, the Financial Management director of the bureau of reclamation. He also holds titles as the accountant for the department besides the one here. We spoke with people inside those homes. One person we talked to around the corner from this home said they are renters, a person at the of the home said leavitt no longer owns the property. And while we connected at least one person rick leavitt to all three locations. Its not clear how many people were seized documents our Team Connection with todays raids. Then set fire to a home with the victims family inside the same house is now the scene of another fire investigation. Fox5s Abby Theodros joins us live with why neighbors say this is no coincidence. We spent the afternoon in the neighborhood where this spoke with decline an on camera interview out of fear of retaliation. But the consistent response from people in the area is that whoever did this was trying to send a
Day off trying to figure out what happened just a few houses from his. Sirens, ambulance, fire trucks, cop cars. Police tell us a man in his mid 20s was shot in the backyard of a vacant home. By the Property Managers. The locksmith told them he thought there was somebody in the residence. The Property Managers, a man and his wife, went in the backyard of that home. They took their dog and their gun, looking for any unwanted tenants. They found one, and a deadly confrontation followed. The fist fight goes to the ground, at some point, i dont know if he regains his footing. But hes able to retrieve his fire arm. Police say the intruder punched the property manager several times in the face. The dog was also punched. Eventually he was able to get his gun and shoot the intruder. The male was transported to sunrise trauma, and he was pronounced deceased, unfortunately police say the intruders backpack held a screw driver and other tools commonly used to break into homes. Theyre investigatin
Preventing greiving familes from acheiving their closure congressman Cresent Hardy threw his support behind the joe hecks good samairtan seach and recovery act friday on the house floor. David its a win win for everyone how can it be wrong its a completely logical bill friday the bill was passed with unanimous support as an amendment to an existing law. It was inspired by a 2012 las vegas murder in which a love triangle turned deadly for Keith Goldberg. Cell phone pings helped red rock search and rescue narrow in on where his body was located. But regulations stopped them being able to go in and retrieve it. Davidhad we had this in place when Keith Goldberg went missing we wouldve recovered him in may we started looking for him april 2012 by may we knew he was in because of all the able to get in until Jeff Goldberg it was horrible no proof that hes really dead prior to the Good Samaritan search and rescue act. Rock search and rescue. Looking persons faced roadblocks and Million Dollar
Joining them since hes currently behind bars. Olin manuel was arrested on february 17th for child abuse with substantial bodily harm resulting in death and possession of a firearm by a prohibited person. Metro says on february 13th metro police got a call about a child shot, when they got there they found a 12 year old hurt by a gun shot. He later died at the hospital, and it was determined that he shot himsel. F. The shooting was a result of a self inflicted gunshot injury from the 12 year old to himself, but through the investigation it was later learned that the father had acquired that fire arm and had that fire arm in the residence that the child used to shoot himself. By the abuse and neglect detail of manuel was prohibited from owning a gun, but metro couldnt say why that was the case. They also couldnt specify about the child abuse charges. They said the investigation is details of his arrest will be given in the arrest report. I spoke to the family over the phone earlier today