Nevada State Police Colonel Michael Edgell volition sermon the preliminary findings of an probe into past week’s deadly constabulary shooting connected Interstate 11.
Edgell is expected to code the media astatine 4 p.m. Tuesday.
Troopers were investigating a clang connected I-11 successful downtown Las Vegas connected Wednesday erstwhile Sean Shirazi, 45, drove done the clang country and deed a semi-truck, according to a Metropolitan Police Department report. Police said Shirazi disobeyed commands to permission his SUV and pinned a trooper against a firetruck with his vehicle.
The trooper opened fire, according to police. Shirazi’s passenger, identified arsenic Corinne Barnes, 40, died of a gunshot coiled to her torso. Shirazi was changeable successful the chest.
Shirazi faces counts of second-degree murder, disobeying a constabulary officer, resisting an officer, failing to halt astatine the country of an mishap and artillery and battle against a archetypal responder.
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