Earlier, another victim was shot five times during a fight in front of Paris Las Vegas. That person and a second victim are recovering from injuries.<\/p>\n
\u201cVegas is (a) very dangerous place to be these days. No security, no protection, and service is not the way it used to be. I was there (a) month and a half ago and did not feel safe at all,”\u00a0Norik Bakhdanyan posted on MGM Grand\u2019s Facebook page this week. Bakhdanyan called for more police presence on the strip.<\/p>\n
How many shooting on the strip last week? Just 3? I’ll pass,\u201d<\/strong> another Facebook poster, Luis Valdez, said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nLast month, Metro Police Capt. Dori Koren told the\u00a0Review-Journal<\/em> that aggravated assaults on or near The Strip have jumped 29 percent when contrasted to the same period during 2019. As of Sept. 19, there were 308 aggravated assaults in the department\u2019s Convention Center Area Command.<\/p>\n\n
There were 238 reports of aggravated assaults in the area during the same period in 2019. Aggravated assaults involving a firearm were up 35 percent this year from 2019 in the Convention Center Area Command. Police have made more than 1,100 arrests and seized 64 guns in downtown Las Vegas and on The Strip over recent weeks, according to Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
In response to the increase in crime, more Metro officers were assigned to The Strip area starting last month. The initiative is part of \u201cOperation Persistent Pressure\u201d to improve safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A shot was fired into the MGM Grand Las Vegas gaming floor during a struggle over a handgun Friday morning. The discharge is the latest incident involving firearms on or near The Strip. Friday\u2019s handgun discharge took place when one of two men engaged in an argument pulled out the firearm. A third person took […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":150925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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