Two people seriously hurt in North Las Vegas crash

A Monday night crash in North Las Vegas left two people seriously hurt.

The crash was reported just before 8 p.m. on West Cheyenne Avenue near Simmons Street, North Las Vegas Police spokesman Eric Leavitt said

A Jeep SUV traveling eastbound on Cheyenne crossed the center line and struck a Toyota Camry head-on in the westbound lanes, Leavitt said.

The Jeep’s 33-year-old male driver and the Toyota’s 50-year-old female driver were hospitalized at University Medical Center. Leavitt said the male might have been impaired. to the intersection of Fort Apache Road and Katie Avenue, near Twain Avenue, for a crash between a motorcycle and a car, Metropolitan Police Department spokeswoman Laura Meltzer said.

The motorcyclist, 22-year-old Elijah Edwards, was traveling south on Fort Apache when a woman driving a 2011 Honda Fit turned left from Katie and was hit by the motorcycle. The Honda then hit a cinder block wall.

Edwards was taken to University Medical Center in “extremely critical” condition, police said. Police later said the driver of the car, 32-year-old Kathryn Kelly, was hospitalized at UMC with moderate injuries. Drive, and police were called just after 7:10 a.m., police said.

Metropolitan Police Department homicide Lt. Dan Mcgrath said the victims were a homeless man in his 50s and homeless woman in her late 20s.

The two had a camp set up in a loading dock area where they were shot.

Police had not identified a motive or shooter Wednesday afternoon.

“Sad case, though, for people that just weren’t bothering anybody,” Mcgrath said.