43-year-old arrested, ID’D as suspect in fatal shooting
Las Vegas police arrested a 43-yearold man in connection with the shooting death Saturday of another man outside a central valley bar.
Officers booked Jerry Fitzgerald Jr. into the Clark County Detention Center on a murder charge Tuesday, records show. Metropolitan Police Department homicide Lt. Ray Spencer named him as a suspect Wednesday in the shooting just outside the Stateside Lounge, a bar in a corner business complex that has seen three homicides this year.
About 3:30 a.m., Michael C. Johnson, 48, was shot outside the bar at 931 Las Vegas Blvd. North, near Washington Avenue. He died of multiple gunshot wounds at University Medical Center about an hour later.
Detectives determined Johnson and another man got into a fistfight inside the bar before it spilled into the parking lot, where the two traded shots, Spencer said at the time. The other man escaped before officers arrived, leaving Johnson to bleed in the parking lot.
The area near the bar has been the site of two other violent deaths within the past four months. On March 23, Howard Chris Drew, 66, was found stabbed to death just outside the lounge. And roughly a week later, just next door at the Stateside Express convenience store, Robert Lee Cook, 56, was gunned down by a clerk during a “beer skip.”
Metro has arrested murder suspects in each of those killings. Department asked the public for any information about Daryl Warren Young after he was found dead on Nov. 30 in the wash near Maryland Parkway, between East Katie Avenue and East Viking Road.
No other details have been released since then, including any circumstances surrounding his death.
Nearly seven months later, the Clark County coroner’s office said Tuesday that it could not nail down how he had died and ruled his manner of death as undetermined.
Metro homicide Lt. Ray Spencer said no arrests have been made in the case.
Anyone who knew Young or has information may call Metro’s homicide section at 702-828-3521 or Crime Stoppers at 702-385-5555 to remain anonymous. There might be a reward of up to $2,000 for information leading to an arrest.