NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) - A North Las Vegas police SWAT officer shot and wounded a man in a vehicle near an overnight standoff at a home where another man was arrested and a woman was hospitalized after a report of a domestic dispute, police said Tuesday.
The 25-year-old motorist was taken to University Medical Center with a leg wound that North Las Vegas police Officer Ann Cavaricci said didn’t appear to be life-threatening after the shooting on Ellis Street. His name wasn’t made public, and he wasn’t immediately charged with a crime.
The SWAT officer reported that he believed the driver, who was on a nearby street, posed a threat in an area police had cordoned off around the Statz Street standoff, Cavaricci said. The neighborhood is near Lake Mead Boulevard and Belmont Street. The nature of the threat wasn’t made public.
Cavaricci says the standoff began about 9 p.m. Monday with a report of a woman injured and a man with a weapon. It lasted about five hours before the arrest of the man on multiple charges. His name wasn’t immediately made public.
Cavaricci said she didn’t know if a weapon was found in the residence.
The woman was taken to a hospital for treatment of injuries that Cavaricci said weren’t believed to be life-threatening.
The officer involved in the shooting wasn’t injured, and his name wasn’t immediately made public. He was placed on paid administrative leave pending departmental and district attorney reviews of the shooting.
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