A person was shot and killed near a business in the east valley Thursday morning, Las Vegas police said, after officers responded to a 911 call reporting someone shot in the 3400 block of East Flamingo Road near South Pecos Road. The victim was declared dead at the scene, and investigators have not released any information about a suspect or what led to the shooting.
According to KSNV, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department dispatch received the call of a person shot at approximately 11:40 a.m. Thursday. Responding officers found a person suffering from an apparent gunshot wound, and that person was declared dead at the scene, as reported by Fox5 Las Vegas. LVMPD Homicide has been advised and is now leading the investigation.
Police have not released the identity of the person killed, pending notification of family, the station's report notes. No information about a suspect or what led up to the shooting has been released either, leaving a stretch of the busy Flamingo Road corridor near Pecos Road as the scene of an open homicide case.
What Investigators Haven't Said
The gap in publicly available details is notable even for a case this fresh. There's no word yet on a weapon, the identity of the business near the shooting, or whether anyone else witnessed the attack. Per the same account, the investigation is ongoing, and police have given no timeline for when more information might be released.
A Department Tracking a Broader Decline
The shooting comes as Metro's own data show a department that has been logging fewer homicides citywide in recent years. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department publishes weekly crime reports, including a homicide statistic sheet that the department says is updated every week and normally reflects changes in how a case gets classified. The department cautions that all of its crime and arrest data are preliminary and subject to further revision and analysis, based on the date an incident occurred rather than when it's reported.
A Las Vegas Review-Journal search snippet indicated that Metro logged 90 murders in 2025, down from 115 in 2024 and 142 in 2023, according to figures compiled by the department. That trend offers context for the broader landscape investigators are working within, though it does not speak to the circumstances of Thursday's shooting on East Flamingo Road, which remains under active investigation with no suspect named and no victim identified.
