A man who fatally shot five people and critically injured a 13-year-old girl at apartments near Las Vegas has killed himself, authorities said Tuesday, June 25.
LAS VEGAS — The North Las Vegas Police Department said the suspected shooter, 57-year-old Eric Adams, killed himself Tuesday morning as he was confronted by officers in a neighborhood. Authorities had been searching for him since Monday night’s shootings in separate apartment units.Efforts to locate relatives of Adams for comment weren’t immediately successful.Police said initially they found two women dead while investigating reports of a shooting late Monday at an apartment in North Las Vegas.
They weren’t immediately identified.The discovery led to an overnight search for Adams, who authorities had described as "armed and dangerous."Just after 10 a.m. on Tuesday, police learned that the suspect had been seen at a business in North Las Vegas.As officers arrived in the area, they saw the suspect with a firearm, running into the backyard of a nearby home. The department said officers followed him, but the suspect refused to drop his weapon and died by suicide.
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