LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) – Southern Nevada roads can be a dangerous place to be, and recent road rage incidents are heightening concerns for drivers. Most recently, a man was killed in a road rage shooting in Henderson Friday night.
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“My first reaction is that people’s anger is getting completely out of control in Las Vegas,” said Erin Breen, director of the Road Equity Alliance Project at UNLV’s Transportation Research Center.
Another fatal shooting at a shopping center in Henderson Friday added to a list of road rage-related deaths on Southern Nevada roads.
Just two weeks ago, an Uber driver was killed in a road rage shooting on the Strip.
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“We’ve had so many of these in the last month, you know, a couple that have been fatal, high profile, you know that shootout in the middle of Las Vegas Boulevard,” said Breen.
Henderson police say Friday night, two cars pulled into a parking lot on Marks Street and Sunset.
One driver thought the other had possibly hit his car.
Both men got out of their cars. One showed a gun in his waistband. Then the other man shot and killed him.
“If you have an altercation with someone, stay in your car,” Breen said. “This getting out of the car and confronting the other person where you’re at, whether you’re actually pulling a gun or you’re showing that you have a gun, you have no idea if the person behind the wheel of the car also has a gun. You have no idea what their level of fright is.”
Police say the man who fired the gun is cooperating and no arrests were made.
They’re investigating the shooting as a possible case of self-defense.
It’s similar to another fatal altercation that happened in the same parking lot just six months ago.
In that case, police say a man approached a car with a gun in a confrontational manner.
Then, a man inside that car shot and killed him.
Henderson police investigated that shooting as possible self-defense as well.
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