A man in his early 30s was found dead after gunfire late Friday at a Las Vegas hotel-casino, authorities said. The shooting happened at a birthday party in one of the hotel towers.
The Strat hotel-casino in Las Vegas, seen here, towers over the north end of the Las Vegas Strip. The resort was the scene of a shooting death at a birthday party Friday, police said. (Image:
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Police responded to a report of gunfire at the Strat Hotel, Casino, and SkyPod at about 10 pm on Friday, and discovered the man dead in a hotel room, according to Lt. Ray Spencer of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. Spencer is a homicide detective with the combined city-county police department, known locally as Metro.