Las Vegas Sun

March 19, 2024

Las Vegas man fatally shot by Metro Police officers identified

A man fatally shot by Metro Police early Tuesday after he reportedly ran from a vehicle stop and lunged toward a gun has been identified as 32-year-old Thomas Joseph Mceniry.

Mceniry, of Las Vegas, died at Sunrise Hospital after being shot by three officers in the parking lot of the French Oaks Apartments, near Maryland Parkway and Katie Avenue, according to police.

Also according to police:

A patrol officer tried to pull over the driver of a Mitsubishi Mirage just before 2 a.m. in the 1700 block of Karen Avenue, near Sahara Avenue and Maryland, after a license plate check showed DMV records related to a different vehicle.

The driver didn't stop, and the officer didn't chase the vehicle.

Another officer later spotted the car unoccupied, without its lights on and headed slowly east on Katie.

Police blocked the car to keep it from entering an intersection, and they received information the driver entered the apartment complex.

A security guard was escorting Mceniry off the property when police arrived, and when an officer tried to speak with him, he ran into an enclosure in the parking lot.

Police followed and ordered Mceniry multiple times to show his hands. When he refused, an officer used a stun gun.

Mceniry dropped to the floor, then reached for a gun on the ground.

Three officers — 26-year-old Kyle Prior, 26-year-old Robert Nord and 32-year-old Donald Sutton III — fired their weapons, and Mceniry was hit several times.

Prior is a seven-year department veteran, and Nord and Sutton have been with Metro about one year.

This is the 12th Metro officer-involved shooting this year.

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