NLV crossing siblings used called unsafe

Poor visibility of signal leads many to shun that route, schoolmates say

A crosswalk where two children were struck by a pickup Friday in North Las Vegas, killing one of them, is not safe because of inadequate, hard-to-see lighting and faded road markings, say students familiar with the thoroughfare.

The crosswalk is on Lone Mountain Road, just east of Losee Road in North Las Vegas, adjacent to Somerset Academy. North Las Vegas police said a 12-year-old boy and his 9-year-old sister, both students at the academy, were using the crosswalk around 3:30 p.m. when they were struck by a black Dodge Ram pickup driven by Mark Kline, 47.

The boy and his sister were rushed

me or do whatever she needs to do. I don’t care. Tell her to do whatever it will take, but that they want the no-contact order dropped and that the drug charges will be wiped off her record.”

Two days later, jail recording devices captured a direct conversation between Prestipino and Mort.

Prestipino said he had placed money in Mort’s jail account and tried to send her a marriage certificate,

but his lawyer stopped him.

Prestipino, 46, and his roommate Casandra Garrett, 39, face murder, kidnapping and conspiracy charges. The two took extensive measures to hide the woman’s body after Prestipino strangled her and injected her with pool cleaner, according to court papers.

Gonzalez lived about one-tenth of a mile from Prestipino’s home at 9051 Iron Cactus Ave. Her brother reported her missing May 31.

In the predawn hours of May 31, the woman was captured on residential surveillance video wandering

on the 9000 block of West Torino Avenue, less than two-tenths of a mile from Prestipino’s home.

Gonzalez’s body was found Oct. 8 in a desert area west of Interstate 15 and Hidden Valley Road in Moapa, according to the Clark County coroner’s office, which could not ultimately determine her cause of death. Garrett and Prestipino await trial.

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K.M. Cannon Las Vegas Review-journal @Kmcannonphoto Melany Romero, 11, a schoolmate of a 12-year-old boy fatally hit by a pickup truck, visits a memorial Monday with her mother near the crosswalk where the boy was hit. Some students have said the crosswalk is unsafe.