Metro looking into death to check for criminality

Las Vegas abuse and neglect detectives are investigating the death of a 6-year-old girl March 2.

Metropolitan Police Department investigators were notified of Caylee Cecilia Koster’s death at 3:45 a.m., after first responders were called to a residence in the 4400 block of Jimmy Durante Boulevard for reports of a child in physical distress. Caylee was taken to Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center, where she died.

Her cause and manner of death were pending with the Clark County coroner Monday.

Meltzer said no arrests have been made but criminal charges could be filed depending on the coroner’s ruling.

A Clark County Department of

Family Services report shows that the department had received at least two prior reports alleging neglect regarding Caylee’s family.