A man who fatally shot five people and critically wounded a 13-year-old girl at multiple apartments near Las Vegas has committed suicide, authorities said Tuesday.
North Las Vegas police said the suspected shooter, 57-year-old Eric Adams, killed himself Tuesday morning when confronted by officers in a neighborhood. Authorities had been searching for him at separate apartments since Monday night’s shooting.
Efforts by the Associated Press to locate Adams’ family members for comment were not immediately successful.
Police initially said they found two women dead while investigating reports of a shooting late Monday at a North Las Vegas apartment. One of them was in her early 40s and the other was in her late 50s, the department said.
As officers investigated, the department said, they learned that a teenage girl had been taken to a hospital with critical gunshot wounds and that there may be more victims in a nearby apartment. The teen was taken to the UMC Trauma Center and remains in critical condition, police said.
Officers then found the bodies of two women in their mid-20s and a man in his early 20s. All five victims had been shot, police said. They were not immediately identified and police did not provide details on whether the victims knew each other or knew the suspect.
The discovery led to an overnight search for Adams, who authorities described as “armed and dangerous.”
Just after 10 a.m. Tuesday, police learned the suspect had been seen at a business in North Las Vegas.
When officers arrived on scene, they saw the suspect running into the backyard of a nearby home with a firearm. The department said officers followed him, but the suspect refused to drop his weapon and died by suicide.
Police have not released a motive for the shootings, which they described as an “isolated incident.” A police spokesperson did not respond to telephone and email requests for more information on Tuesday.
