Police say the suspect in a shooting in North Las Vegas on Monday night that left five people dead and a teenage girl critically injured committed suicide after a pursuit by officers on Tuesday morning.
Police said officers responded to an apartment on Monday just after 10 p.m. for a report of a shooting and found two injured women, one in her early 40s and the other in her late 50s, who were later pronounced dead.
Detectives later found an injured 13-year-old girl inside the apartment, who remains in critical condition at University Medical Center in Las Vegas, police said.
Authorities found two women in their mid-20s and a man in his early 20s dead from gunshot wounds in a nearby apartment. They were pronounced dead at the scene, authorities said.
The identities of the five victims will be confirmed by the Clark County Coroner’s Office, police said. Officials with the coroner’s office could not immediately be reached Tuesday afternoon.
Police have named Eric Adams, 47, as a murder suspect.
North Las Vegas Police said they received a tip about Adams’ location on Tuesday morning, after officers from the Criminal Apprehension Team later found Adams, who “was in possession of a firearm and fled into the backyard of a residence at the location,” police said.
Officers began giving verbal commands to drop the gun, but “Adams ignored commands and committed suicide,” police said.
North Las Vegas Police said in a statement that the Las Vegas Police Department’s Special Investigations Team is assisting in the investigation.
There was no additional information from police Tuesday afternoon. Police said details of the “full investigation” would be released at a later date.
The motive for the murder has not been revealed.
