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“Shots fired! Shots fired!”
That’s what a Las Vegas police officer can be heard saying in a bodycam video released by the force on Monday.
The video shows him firing on a suspect vehicle amid a high-speed chase that unfolded on July 11.
Coverage of the Las Vegas police on Globalnews.ca:
The incident began after a man was shot and killed at a car wash at about 7:30 a.m.
Police spotted a black SUV approximately two hours later that matched a description of the one that the two suspects were driving.
From there, police gave chase in the streets close to downtown Las Vegas.
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Police said the suspects fired 34 shots at officers before the SUV crashed into an elementary school.
Officers later used “deadly force” to stop Fidel Miranda, the 23-year-old suspect who tried to run away.
Police said Miranda had two guns with him: a .40-calibre Smith and Wesson model SV40VE and a .45-caliber Glock Model 21.
The other suspect, 30-year-old Rene Nunez, was arrested on the school grounds; he was wounded.
Nunez now faces a litany of charges, including open murder with a deadly weapon, attempted murder with a deadly weapon on a protected person, discharging a firearm from a vehicle and carrying a concealed weapon.
Police said his weapon was a nine-millimetre Taurus Model PTa11 G2 that was reported stolen on May 20.
Police went on to say the pair were travelling in a 2002 Ford Expedition with no plates; it, too, was reported stolen on May 20.
Nunez was listed as a suspect.
- With files from The Associated Press
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