LAS VEGAS (AP) — A man who fatally shot five people and critically injured a 13-year-old girl at apartment complex in North Las Vegas has killed himself, authorities said Tuesday.
The NLVPD said the suspected shooter, 57-year-old Eric Adams, killed himself Tuesday morning as he was confronted by officers in a neighborhood near MLK and Lake Mead.
Police said initially they found two women dead while investigating reports of a shooting late Monday at the Craig Ranch Villas Apartments near Lone Mountain and Commerce. One of them was in her early 40s and the other in her late 50s, according to the department.
While officers were investigating, the department said, they learned a teen girl had been taken to a hospital with critical gunshot wounds and that there could be more victims in a nearby apartment.
Officers then found the bodies of two women in their mid-20s and a man in his early 20s. All five victims had been shot, police said. They weren't immediately identified.
The discovery led to an overnight search for Adams, who authorities had described as "armed and dangerous."
Just after 10 a.m. Tuesday, police learned that the suspect had been seen at a business in North Las Vegas.
As officers arrived in the area, they saw the suspect with a firearm, running into the backyard of a nearby home. The department said officers followed him, but the suspect refused to drop his weapon and died by suicide.
Police haven't disclosed a motive for the shootings, which they described as an "isolated incident”