Coroner IDs Las Vegas man, 36, shot by police

By Pashtana Usufzy

Published Monday, July 27, 2015 | 9:46 a.m.

Updated Monday, July 27, 2015 | 11:42 a.m.

A man killed by police after authorities say he shot an officer in the face with a pellet gun Saturday has been identified as Bryan Keith Day, 36, of Las Vegas, according to the Clark County Coroner’s Office.

Day died of multiple gunshot wounds after being shot by police outside of an apartment in the 3000 block of East Charleston Boulevard, near Fremont Street, according to Metro Police and the Coroner’s Office.

Officers were called about 6:10 p.m. to a report of robbery and battery with a deadly weapon, and while they were at an apartment, Day came out of a different apartment and spoke with them, police said.

Day went back in the apartment and returned with a pellet-type handgun, shooting one of the officers, police said.

Officers fired back, and Day was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

The wounded officer, 28-year-old Keith McIntyre, was treated and released that evening from University Medical Center.

Metro identified the other officers in the shooting as 23-year-old John Squeo and 38-year-old Christopher Gowens.

McIntyre has been employed by Metro since August 2008, and Squeo and Gowens have been Metro employees since March 2014.

All three downtown patrol officers have been placed on paid administrative leave, standard operating procedure in officer-involved shootings, police said.