{"id":106124,"date":"2024-06-26T00:03:23","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T00:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/gunman-allegedly-kills-five-people-critically-injures-13-year-old-in-shootings-at-two-apartments\/"},"modified":"2024-06-26T00:03:23","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T00:03:23","slug":"gunman-allegedly-kills-five-people-critically-injures-13-year-old-in-shootings-at-two-apartments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/gunman-allegedly-kills-five-people-critically-injures-13-year-old-in-shootings-at-two-apartments\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunman allegedly kills five people, critically injures 13-year-old in shootings at two apartments"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-06-25\/GettyImages_PoliceLights_022323.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Oliver Helbig\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev.) &#8212; A gunman allegedly killed five people and critically injured a teenager in shootings at two apartments in Nevada, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Police launched a manhunt for the suspect, 57-year-old Erick Adams, before North Las Vegas police announced later on Tuesday that Adams died by suicide.<\/p>\n<p>The shootings unfolded in North Las Vegas on Monday night. Officers responded to the first apartment just after 10 p.m. and found two women &#8212; one in her 40s and one in her 50s &#8212; both fatally shot, police said.<\/p>\n<p>A third shooting victim, a 13-year-old girl, was also found at the apartment and was hospitalized in critical condition, police said.<\/p>\n<p>At a nearby apartment, officer found three more shooting victims: two women and one man, all in their 20s, police said. All three were declared dead at the scene, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Police released Adams&#8217; name and photo on Tuesday, urging anyone with information to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they learned of Adams&#8217; location just after 10 a.m. When officers responded, Adams &#8212; armed with a gun &#8212; fled into a backyard of a home, police said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Officers began giving Adams verbal commands to drop the firearm, however Adams ignored those commands and died by suicide,&#8221; police said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>A potential motive has not been released.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oliver Helbig\/Getty Images (NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev.) &#8212; A gunman allegedly killed five people and critically injured a teenager in shootings at two apartments in Nevada, authorities said. Police launched a manhunt for the suspect, 57-year-old Erick Adams, before North Las Vegas police announced later on Tuesday that Adams died<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/gunman-allegedly-kills-five-people-critically-injures-13-year-old-in-shootings-at-two-apartments\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}