There is gun violence in Las Vegas. This Monday marked the third time in December in the American gaming capital. A man under house arrest killed a woman and two minors in an apartment northwest of the city this morning. A third minor was also injured by bullets and is hospitalized in critical condition. The shooter is later said to have taken his own life and is the fourth fatality. The incident came four days after a semi-retired university professor killed three University of Nevada, Las Vegas academics with a legally purchased 9-millimeter handgun.
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police have not identified the perpetrator of the new shooting but confirmed he was under house arrest. The attack would have taken place at dawn, but the first emergency call came a few minutes after 10:00 a.m. (local time) when the alleged murderer's brother went to the apartment to visit him.
When officers arrived at the scene, they found five gunshot wounds. Three were under 14 years old. The adults were a woman and a man, the suspected attacker. A police spokesman said this afternoon that there was “some connection” between the victims, but did not specify what type of connection.
Lieutenant Robert Price assured that the two minors died at the scene of the accident. The third was taken by paramedics to the University Hospital, where he is fighting for life and death. The spokesman assumes that it was a multiple murder followed by suicide. This is the leading cause of firearm deaths in the United States. Even when it comes to domestic violence, more than 600 women die from gun violence every year. The attack occurred in Tower 9 of the Loreto building, which is located on the opposite side of the city's most touristy area. In an email to residents, apartment managers noted that it was an “isolated incident.”
The three deaths this Monday are added to four others that have resulted in incidents of armed violence since the beginning of December. On Friday 1st, a 57-year-old homeless man died from a gunshot wound to the chest after a man opened fire on a homeless camp. Four people were also injured in the attack. No one was arrested after this shooting.
On Wednesday last week, Anthony Polito, a 67-year-old semi-retired professor, opened fire at the University of Nevada Business School, one of the many institutions that have denied him a job since he became unemployed in June of that year. Past. For ten minutes, it struck terror into the entire university community of nearly 29,000 people. Before he was killed by agents responding to an emergency, Polito took the lives of teachers Patricia Navarro Velez, Jerry Chang and Naoko Takemaru.
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Polito, who worked as an academic in North Carolina for 16 years, found himself in a time of economic crisis. When police went to his apartment looking for evidence that might help them understand the motive for the attack, they found an eviction notice on the door. On the morning of December 6, he left his home armed with a gun, nine magazines containing more than 150 bullets and a list of targets to kill. His plans ran afoul of police officers Nathaniel Drum and Damian García, who prevented an even worse massacre by shooting Polito.
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