One person was shot dead and four others injured on Thanksgiving after police in Henderson, Nevada, say a man and woman fired at people while driving in the city.
© DenisTangneyJr, Getty Images/iStockphoto Henderson, officially the City of Henderson, is a city in Clark County, Nevada, United States, about 16 miles southeast of Las Vegas. It is the second-largest city in Nevada, after Las Vegas
"It is believed that the suspects were driving around the city randomly shooting at citizens with no apparent motive," Henderson police said in a news release.Henderson police officers responding to the Thursday shooting at the 800 block of East Lake Mead Parkway found a 22-year-old man, who had died from an apparent gunshot wound, and a 23-year-old woman, an 18-year-old man, a 53-year-old man and a 41-year-old man, all suffering from apparent gunshot wounds, according to a news release.
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The four injured victims were taken to a local hospital and are expected to survive. The identity of the deceased man will be released by the coroner's office after notifying next of kin.
The suspects, a man believed to be in his 20s or 30s and a woman in her 20s, were later arrested and taken into custody after a trooper-involved shooting by the Arizona Department of Public Safety.
Public Safety spokesman Raul Garcia also said that there was a third, unidentified suspect in the trooper shooting taken into custody.
The investigation, which is still active, marks the 13th homicide case for the city this year.
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