AP Reporter Rio Yamat

RIO YAMAT

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Yamat covers Nevada and the U.S. Southwest for The Associated Press. She is based in Las Vegas.

In this image made from body camera footage provided by the Las Vegas Metro Police Department, officers run into a building on the University of Nevada, Las Vegas campus, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023, in response to reports of a shooting. Police body camera footage from the shooting, which left three people dead and one wounded, was released Wednesday, Dec. 20. (Las Vegas Metro Police Department via AP)

Newly released video shows how police moved through UNLV campus in response to reports of shooting

Video released Wednesday by Las Vegas police shows officers shouting over blaring alarms and knocking down reports of additional gunfire while responding to a shooting at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Homicide victim found dead in 1979 near Las Vegas Strip ID’d as missing 19-year-old from Cincinnati

A body found in an open field in 1979 near what is today a busy intersection of the Las Vegas Strip has been identified as a teenager from Ohio.

FILE - Clark County public defender Kristy Holston, left, and Nathan Chasing Horse stand during a court hearing Wednesday, April 5, 2023, in Las Vegas. The Nevada Supreme Court has denied Nathan Chasing Horse's request to toss a sprawling indictment that accuses the former “Dances With Wolves” actor of leading a cult, taking underage wives and sexually abusing Indigenous women and girls for decades. (AP Photo/Ty O'Neil, File)

Nevada high court upholds sex abuse charges against ‘Dances With Wolves’ actor Nathan Chasing Horse

The Nevada Supreme Court has ruled that prosecutors in Las Vegas can proceed with their criminal case against “Dances With Wolves” actor Nathan Chasing Horse.

FILE - Kenneth Chesebro speaks to Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee during a hearing where Chesebro accepted a plea deal from the Fulton County district attorney at the Fulton County Courthouse, Oct. 20, 2023, in Atlanta. Chesebro, who helped orchestrate the Trump campaign's fake elector scheme in 2020, had been a target of a criminal investigation in Nevada but avoided prosecution in exchange for his cooperation with authorities, according to transcripts of secret grand jury proceedings in Las Vegas released Sunday, Dec. 17. (Alyssa Pointer/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Trump campaign lawyer testified in Nevada fake electors case to avoid prosecution, transcripts show

New court transcripts show that a lawyer who helped orchestrate the Trump campaign’s fake elector plot in 2020 had been a target of a criminal investigation in Nevada.

Las Vegas police stand near the scene of a shooting at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023, in Las Vegas. Terrified students and professors cowered in classrooms and dorms as a gunman roamed the floors of a campus building on Wednesday, killing several people and critically wounding another person before dying in a shootout with police. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Recorded 911 calls underscore the real time terror of the deadly Las Vegas university shooting

Fire alarms blared in the background of recorded 911 calls that police released of terrified students and faculty this week at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Las Vegas police stand near the scene of a shooting at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023, in Las Vegas. Terrified students and professors cowered in classrooms and dorms as a gunman roamed the floors of a campus building on Wednesday, killing several people and critically wounding another person before dying in a shootout with police. (AP Photo/John Locher)

UNLV gunman had list of targets at the university and 150 rounds of ammunition, police say

Police say the suspect in a deadly shooting at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, had a list of targets at the school and at East Carolina University in North Carolina, where he once worked.

Two women sit after a shooting on the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, campus on Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023, in Las Vegas. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP)

Las Vegas shooting suspect was a professor who recently applied for a job at UNLV, AP source says

A law enforcement official says the gunman who killed three people and critically wounded a fourth in an attack at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas was a professor who unsuccessfully sought a job at the school.

Nevada State Police and other law enforcement officers embrace in the parking lot after the body of a state trooper was taken into the Clark County Coroner's Office in Las Vegas, Thursday, Nov. 30, 2023. Two troopers who were assisting a motorist early Thursday morning were hit by a vehicle and killed, according to Nevada State Police. (Steve Marcus/Las Vegas Sun via AP)

Driver arrested after 2 troopers killed in Las Vegas freeway hit-and-run was impaired, police say

Two Nevada state troopers have died in a hit-and-run while helping another driver and a suspect is in custody.

A memorial for Jonathan Lewis Jr. is set up in an alleyway near Rancho High School in eastern Las Vegas, on Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2023. Authorities have arrested at least eight students in connection with the beating of Lewis, who died a week after a prearranged fight broke out over a pair of headphones and a vape pen. (AP Photo/Ty O'Neil)

A Las Vegas high school grapples with how a feud over stolen items escalated into a fatal beating

A Las Vegas high school is grappling with how a feud over stolen items escalated into a fatal beating. Several of Jonathan Lewis Jr.'s peers have been arrested.

A makeshift memorial for a high school student lines a fence along an alleyway near Rancho High School in eastern Las Vegas on Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023. Authorities arrested eight teens Tuesday in connection with the beating of Jonathan Lewis Jr., who died a week after a prearranged fight over a pair of headphones and a vape pen. (AP Photo/Rio Yamat)

4 Las Vegas high school students charged with murder as adults in classmate’s fatal beating

Prosecutors in Las Vegas have formally charged four high school students as adults with second-degree murder in the beating of their schoolmate.

FILE - Members of the Culinary Workers Union rally along the Las Vegas Strip, Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023, in Las Vegas. After a marathon week of negotiations, the Las Vegas hotel workers union says it has reached a tentative deal with Wynn Resorts. It was the last contract the Culinary Workers Union needed to avoid a strike Friday, Nov. 10, 2023, and came after the union's tentative deals with Caesars Entertainment and MGM Resorts. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Las Vegas union hotel workers ratify Caesars contract

Las Vegas hotel union workers have overwhelmingly voted to approve their contract agreement with casino giant Caesars Entertainment.

A makeshift memorial for a high school student lines a fence along an alleyway near Rancho High School in eastern Las Vegas on Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023. Authorities arrested eight teens Tuesday in connection with the beating of Jonathan Lewis Jr., who died a week after a prearranged fight over a pair of headphones and a vape pen. (AP Photo/Rio Yamat)

Las Vegas high schoolers facing murder charges in their classmate’s death are due in court

Four of the eight Las Vegas high school students accused of beating their schoolmate to death in a brawl captured on cellphone video have made their first appearances in the adult court system.

A makeshift memorial for a high school student lines a fence along an alleyway near Rancho High School in eastern Las Vegas on Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023. Authorities arrested eight teens Tuesday in connection with the beating of Jonathan Lewis Jr., who died a week after a prearranged fight over a pair of headphones and a vape pen. (AP Photo/Rio Yamat)

Eight Las Vegas high schoolers face murder charges in their classmate’s death. Here’s what we know

Eight Las Vegas high school students between the ages of 13 and 17 years old were arrested on murder charges in the beating death of a schoolmate that was captured on cellphone video.

A makeshift memorial for a high school student lines a fence along an alleyway near Rancho High School in eastern Las Vegas on Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023. Authorities arrested eight teens Tuesday in connection with the beating of Jonathan Lewis Jr., who died a week after a prearranged fight over a pair of headphones and a vape pen. (AP Photo/Rio Yamat)

A Las Vegas high school student was beaten to death by 10 classmates between 13 and 17, police say

Authorities say a Las Vegas high school student was killed when 10 students between the ages of 13 and 17 beat him in an alleyway around the corner from campus in a prearranged fight over a pair of headphones and a vape pen.

FILE - Members of the Culinary Workers Union rally along the Las Vegas Strip, Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023, in Las Vegas. After a marathon week of negotiations, the Las Vegas hotel workers union says it has reached a tentative deal with Wynn Resorts. It was the last contract the Culinary Workers Union needed to avoid a strike Friday, Nov. 10, 2023, and came after the union's tentative deals with Caesars Entertainment and MGM Resorts. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Wynn joins Caesars and MGM in reaching tentative deal to avoid a strike by Las Vegas hotel workers

After a marathon week of negotiations, the Las Vegas hotel workers union says it has reached a tentative deal with Wynn Resorts.

FILE - The exterior of the MGM Grand hotel-casino is pictured on Sept. 20, 2023, in Las Vegas. The Las Vegas hotel workers union reached a deal with MGM Resorts International, the largest employer on the Las Vegas Strip, on the heels of its breakthrough agreement with Caesars Entertainment. The Culinary Workers Union announced the tentative 5-year agreement Thursday, Nov. 9 (AP Photo/Ty ONeil, File)

Tentative deals with MGM and Caesars narrowly avert Las Vegas hotel workers strike

The Las Vegas hotel workers union says it has reached a deal with MGM Resorts International, the largest employer on the Las Vegas Strip, on the heels of its breakthrough agreement with Caesars Entertainment.

FILE - A man takes pictures of Caesars Palace hotel and casino in Las Vegas, Jan. 12, 2015. The Culinary Workers Union in Las Vegas has reached a tentative deal with casino giant Caesars Entertainment that could help avert a sweeping strike. The deal announced early Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023, marks a major breakthrough after several months of unsuccessful negotiations. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Tentative deal is close with Las Vegas hotel workers union amid strike threat, says MGM’s CEO

The CEO of MGM Resorts International said in an earnings call that he believed contract negotiations underway Wednesday would lead to a tentative agreement with the Culinary Workers Union.

Las Vegas police arrest members of the Culinary Workers Union along the Strip, Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023, in Las Vegas. Thousands of hotel workers fighting for new union contracts rallied Wednesday night on the Las Vegas Strip, where rush-hour traffic was disrupted when some members blocked the road before being detained by police. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Tens of thousands of Las Vegas Strip hotel workers at 18 casinos could go on strike this month

The labor union representing Las Vegas hotel workers has set a strike deadline. The decision threatens major disruptions at more than a dozen resorts that could coincide with the Strip’s inaugural Formula 1 races later this month.

A Las Vegas police officer arrests a member of the Culinary Workers Union along the Strip, Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023, in Las Vegas. Thousands of hotel workers fighting for new union contracts rallied Wednesday night on the Las Vegas Strip, where rush-hour traffic was disrupted when some members blocked the road before being detained by police. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Dozens of union workers arrested on Las Vegas Strip for blocking traffic as thousands rally

Thousands of hotel workers fighting for new union contracts rallied on the Las Vegas Strip where at least 58 who were blocking rush-hour traffic have been arrested.

FILE - This photo provided by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department shows a suspect captured by security cameras on Jan. 6, 2022, during a robbery at the Aliante hotel-casino in North Las Vegas. The police agency later identified the suspect as Caleb Rogers, who was employed as an active-duty patrol officer at the time of the robbery. The Las Vegas police officer was sentenced Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023, to 12 years in federal prison for stealing nearly $165,000 in a trio of casino heists. (Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department via AP, File)

Las Vegas police officer gets 12 years in prison for trio of casino robberies netting $165,000

A Las Vegas police officer has been sentenced to 12 years in federal prison for stealing nearly $165,000 in a trio of casino heists starting almost two years ago.

This photo provided by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department shows the bullet-riddled car in which rapper Tupac Shakur was fatally shot in September 1996, in Las Vegas. Duane "Keffe D" Davis, 60, was arrested Sept. 29, 2023, and charged with orchestrating the drive-by shooting of Shakur near the Las Vegas Strip that also wounded rap music mogul Marion “Suge” Knight. (Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department via AP)

Who witnessed Tupac Shakur’s 1996 killing in Las Vegas? Here’s what we know

Duane “Keffe D” Davis is the last living suspect in one of hip-hop’s most enduring mysteries — the 1996 death of rapper Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas.

This screen grab from body camera video provided by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department shows the arrest of Duane “Keffe D” Davis during a walk outside his home in Henderson, Nev., Sept. 29, 2023. (Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department via AP)

Las Vegas police video shows first-ever arrest in rapper Tupac Shakur’s 1996 killing

Newly released police body camera videos show the arrest of Duane “Keffe D” Davis on suspicion of murder in the 1996 shooting of Tupac Shakur near the Las Vegas Strip.

Duane "Keffe D" Davis is led into the courtroom at the Regional Justice Center on Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023, in Las Vegas. Davis has been charged in the 1996 fatal drive-by shooting of rapper Tupac Shakur. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP, Pool)

Suspect charged in rapper Tupac Shakur’s fatal shooting makes first court appearance in Las Vegas

The man facing a murder charge in the fatal shooting of Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas 27 years ago has made his first court appearance.

A portion of a mural by artist sloe_motions depicting Oscar De La Hoya, Vin Scully, Kobe Bryant, Snoop Dogg, and Tupac Shakur is seen on the side of Speedy Auto Tint on Friday, Sept. 29, 2023, in Bellflower, Calif. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Arrest in Tupac Shakur killing stemmed from Biggie Smalls death investigation

Duane Keffe D. Davis was arrested and charged with murder Friday, with prosecutors saying he ordered and masterminded the Shakur killing.

FILE - An image of the late rapper and actor Tupac Shakur appears among fans during a ceremony honoring Shakur with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Wednesday, June 7, 2023, in Los Angeles. The unsolved killing of Shakur has taken a major turn. Duane “Keffe D” Davis was arrested Friday morning, although the exact charge or charges were not immediately clear, according to two officials with first-hand knowledge of the arrest. The renewed activity comes nearly 30 years after Shakur was gunned down on Sept. 7, 1996. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

An arrest has been made in Tupac Shakur’s killing. Here’s what we know about the case

The unsolved killing of rapper Tupac Shakur has taken a major turn.

From left, Las Vegas police Lt. Jason Johansson, Sheriff Kevin McMahill and Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson attends a news conference on an indictment in the 1996 murder of rapper Tupac Shakur, Friday, Sept. 29, 2023, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Last living suspect in 1996 drive-by shooting of Tupac Shakur indicted in Las Vegas on murder charge

A grand jury in Las Vegas has indicted the last living suspect in the 1996 killing of Tupac Shakur in a long-awaited breakthrough in one of hip-hop’s most enduring mysteries.

FILE - Dineh Benally poses for a photograph before a Navajo Nation presidential forum at a tribal casino outside Flagstaff, Ariz., Tuesday, June 21, 2022. Chinese workers allege they were lured to northern New Mexico under false pretenses and forced to work 14 hours a day trimming marijuana on the Navajo Nation where cultivating the plant is illegal, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023, in state court. The lawsuit names as defendants Navajo businessman Benally and Taiwanese entrepreneur Irving Lin, who was arrested in 2022 following a raid in California. (AP Photo/Felicia Fonseca, File)

Chinese immigrant workers sue over forced labor at illegal marijuana operation on Navajo land

A group of Chinese immigrant workers is suing over forced labor and human trafficking claims that stem from an illegal marijuana growing operation in northwestern New Mexico.

Culinary Union members, including Veronica Flores Serrano, who works at The Linq, cast their ballots during a strike vote, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023, at Thomas & Mack Center on the UNLV campus in Las Vegas. Tens of thousands of hospitality workers who keep the iconic casinos and hotels of Las Vegas humming were set to vote Tuesday on whether to authorize a strike amid ongoing contract negotiations. (K.M. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP)

Las Vegas hospitality workers overwhelmingly permit union to call strike against hotels, casinos

Tens of thousands of hospitality workers in Las Vegas have voted to authorize a strike that could disrupt dozens of hotels and casinos.

FILE - The Nevada Supreme Court building stands on May 2, 2018, in Carson City, Nev. Nevada's pardons board voted Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023, to now consider requests for posthumous pardons in a limited scope, nearly six years after it voted to freeze such applications amid a backlog in cases. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner, File)

Nevada pardons board will now consider requests for posthumous pardons

Nevada’s pardons board will now consider requests for posthumous pardons in a limited scope. The move comes six years after it voted to freeze such applications amid a backlog of requests for pardons and commutations.

CORRECTS TO JASON JOHANSSON, INSTEAD OF NICK FARESE - CORRECTS RANK - Las Vegas police Lt. Jason Johansson speaks during a news conference Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023, in Las Vegas. Las Vegas police on Tuesday announced a second teenager has been arrested in a series of hit-and-run crashes, including the death of a former California police chief who was riding a bicycle last month. (AP Photo/Ty ONeil)

2 teens in Las Vegas face murder charges for fatal hit-and-run they captured on video, police say

Two teenagers in Las Vegas have been arrested and face murder charges as adults in a hit-and-run that authorities say the teens captured on video.