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Suspect tried to stab person, used vehicle to ram into ambulance, police say

Las Vegas Review-Journal·Glenn Puit·6 months ago
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A person went on a rampage at an east Las Vegas shopping complex Friday, attempting to stab a person in front of a grocery store and then using a vehicle to repeatedly ram a nearby ambulance, police said.

The Metropolitan Police Department said they were called just after 11:40 a.m. to the shopping center in the 4900 block of East Sahara Avenue at Nellis Boulevard.

“The suspect exited a vehicle and attempted to stab an individual in a business parking lot,” police said in an email. “The individual was able to safely get away from the suspect.”

Police did not identify the business, but a Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter observed crime scene tape stretched around a portion of the parking lot in front of a Smith’s grocery store.

The suspect then got back into the vehicle and drove to another area of the complex parking lot where they “ rammed a parked ambulance, multiple times,” police said.

The Review-Journal observed an ambulance in the same parking lot, in front of a Bank of America outlet, with…

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