LAS VEGAS – When a man wielding a metal bat charged at police officers outside a southeast Las Vegas Valley apartment complex in September, Metropolitan Police Department officers deployed an electronic control device – some of these are more popularly known as Tasers – in an effort to stop him.
It didn’t work, police said. When the man wasn’t incapacitated by the device officers tried deploying the device again. But at the same time, another officer made the decision to use lethal force, firing two rounds at 42-year-old Kyle Norris.
This fatal shooting was the ninth of 17 total shootings by a Metro officer in 2024, a number that jumped 70 percent from 10 shootings in 2023. Of the 17 shootings, nine of them were fatal. In 2023, five were fatal. Metro did not comment on the rise in shootings…