Las Vegas family’s attempt to confront car thieves ends in gunfire

A household that spotted their stolen conveyance successful cardinal Las Vegas and gave pursuit aboriginal Tuesday ended up being changeable astatine erstwhile they attempted to face the thieves, constabulary said.

Metropolitan Police Department Lt. David Gordon said astatine 5:40 a.m., a antheral and his household were successful the country of Fremont Street and Sahara Avenue erstwhile they saw the family’s precocious stolen car adjacent the intersection.

“The antheral tried to halt his stolen vehicle, which resulted successful a insignificant collision,” Gordon said successful a substance message.

The antheral past attempted to get his conveyance back, prompting 1 of the chartless fig of occupants successful the stolen car to unfastened fire. No 1 was injured, and the thieves fled connected foot.

There was a dense constabulary beingness successful the country aft the gunshots rang retired arsenic constabulary searched for the idiosyncratic who fired the shots and investigated the transgression scene. Officers were inactive investigating arsenic of 8 a.m.

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