Post by Shuftin on Jul 25, 2006 0:46:37 GMT -5
July 05, 2006
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Police shot and killed a man in a car on the Las Vegas Strip late Tuesday after an altercation that authorities said began with a command to turn down his car stereo.
Police Capt. James Dillon said the incident began at about 11 p.m., when 32-year-old Tarance Deshon Hall, of Las Vegas, pulled his car too far out into the Flamingo Road intersection and then defied two bicycle officers who asked him to lower the volume on his stereo.
Dillon said one of the officers reached into the car "either to point to the radio or to turn it down himself" when Hall accelerated, leaving the officer hanging from the car.
Hall's car made a U-turn, collided with a taxi and hit a pole, causing the air bag to deploy and knock the officer unconscious, Dillon said.
The other officer fired once, mortally wounding the driver, who was pronounced dead at a hospital a short time later, police said.
The Strip was crowded with Fourth of July visitors at the time, including at least one who turned a videotape over to Las Vegas television station KLAS-TV. It shows the officer who police say had been unconscious just moments before pulling the man from the car and handcuffing him before an ambulance arrived near the Bally's, Bellagio, Caesar's Palace and Flamingo casinos. Dillon said the video was taken about 30 seconds after the shot was fired.
Dillon said Hall has some criminal history, but would not elaborate. Police suspect Hall had been drinking, but have not received toxicology results.
The shooting was the 18th involving a Las Vegas police officer this year - a sharp increase from 13 reported in all of 2005.
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Police shot and killed a man in a car on the Las Vegas Strip late Tuesday after an altercation that authorities said began with a command to turn down his car stereo.
Police Capt. James Dillon said the incident began at about 11 p.m., when 32-year-old Tarance Deshon Hall, of Las Vegas, pulled his car too far out into the Flamingo Road intersection and then defied two bicycle officers who asked him to lower the volume on his stereo.
Dillon said one of the officers reached into the car "either to point to the radio or to turn it down himself" when Hall accelerated, leaving the officer hanging from the car.
Hall's car made a U-turn, collided with a taxi and hit a pole, causing the air bag to deploy and knock the officer unconscious, Dillon said.
The other officer fired once, mortally wounding the driver, who was pronounced dead at a hospital a short time later, police said.
The Strip was crowded with Fourth of July visitors at the time, including at least one who turned a videotape over to Las Vegas television station KLAS-TV. It shows the officer who police say had been unconscious just moments before pulling the man from the car and handcuffing him before an ambulance arrived near the Bally's, Bellagio, Caesar's Palace and Flamingo casinos. Dillon said the video was taken about 30 seconds after the shot was fired.
Dillon said Hall has some criminal history, but would not elaborate. Police suspect Hall had been drinking, but have not received toxicology results.
The shooting was the 18th involving a Las Vegas police officer this year - a sharp increase from 13 reported in all of 2005.