Teenage suspect injured in shootout with North Las Vegas Police

A North Las Vegas Police conveyance blocks Statz Street astatine East Lake Mead Boulevard successful North Las Vegas Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2018. Photo by Steve Marcus

A shootout betwixt North Las Vegas Police and a 15-year-old suspected of robbery ended with an apprehension aboriginal Wednesday morning, officials said.

Police responded to a study of a conveyance being breached into conscionable earlier 3 a.m. Wednesday successful the 5100 artifact of Rocky Bluff Street aft investigating respective different conveyance burglaries successful the 5200 artifact of Styers Street. Officers located a fishy successful the 4300 artifact of Matinee Avenue who matched a provided statement and confronted the 15-year-old, who changeable astatine the officers, constabulary said.

Officers chased the fishy and exchanged gunfire, during which the teen was changeable successful the limb and surrendered.

Police provided exigency aesculapian attraction earlier aesculapian unit transported the fishy to University Medical Center with injuries not thought to beryllium life-threatening.

The fishy is believed to person committed astatine slightest 8 conveyance burglaries anterior to the constabulary confrontation, constabulary said. The shooting is the 3rd officer-involved shooting by North Las Vegas Police successful 2024.