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They confront administrators over university’s delayed response
UNLV students confronted administrators Tuesday over the university’s response to a shooting threat discovered in a bathroom stall on campus on Oct. 10.
At an at-times tense meeting hosted by the Residence Hall
Association, speakers told Interim Provost Chris Heavey, Vice President Juanita Fain and head of police services Adam Garcia that the five-day delay between finding the threat and alerting the campus had put students at risk.
On-campus residents furthermore said that the existing security measures on campus, such as guards who failed to check ID cards at the residence halls, created an ongoing safety issue.
Garcia said the threat, which indicated a shooting would occur on Oct. 16, was handled in conjunction with the FBI, which knew about it within an hour of when it was first reported to University Police.
Police hoped to investigate and make an arrest before alerting the campus, according to Garcia. Instead, when the threat was found to not be credible, the university sent an announcement in the afternoon on Oct. 14 “out of an abundance of caution,”
lieve a “violent domestic incident” happened, according to a Monday release.
Officers found the boy with multiple apparent stab wounds and an “agitated woman,” later determined to be the boy’s mother. “A struggle ensued” before police shot Rodriguez, the release said.
Rodriguez later died at Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center. Her son, Winston, was expected to recover after emergency surgery at University Medical Center, the release said.
According to court documents, the boy is 6 years, 10 months old, but Henderson police on Monday said he was 7.
Police on Wednesday said Little has been employed with the department since March 2008, and Mccarrick has been employed since January 2016. Both were assigned to the Field Operations Bureau.
Rodriguez’s death marked the fourth police shooting — and the first fatal police shooting — involving Henderson officers this year.
2010 shooting
A Henderson officer named Edward Little was involved in a fatal off-duty shooting in September 2010. According to Review-journal archives, authorities said Little was not acting in an official capacity when he shot Ruslan Zhgenti, 38.
The Review-journal stories indicate Zhgenti was the estranged husband of a woman Little was visiting at the time. Police said Little was visiting Sabina Iskenderova at her home on Via Sarafina Drive, near Seven Hills Drive and Sunridge Heights Parkway, when her estranged husband arrived, carrying one of two handguns he owned. Although Iskenderova and Zhgenti jointly owned the house, he was living elsewhere, police said.
Little shot and killed Zhgenti with a handgun that was not his duty weapon after Zhgenti confronted them with his own gun, police said.
Henderson police concluded the 2010 shooting was a valid self-defense case and did not recommend any charges. The Clark County coroner’s office reviewed the shooting and decided no coroner’s inquest was necessary. No charges were filed.
Contact Katelyn Newberg at knewberg@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0240. Follow @k_newberg on Twitter. Review-journal staff writer Glenn Puit contributed to this report.