Friday, Feb. 8, 2008 | 7:08 p.m.
Three Las Vegas Metro police officers who were involved in a shootout Wednesday night that killed one man and injured an officer were identified this evening by Metro Police.
The Metro officers involved in the shooting in the 2000 block of Canosa are Pete Friday, Dustin Butler and Jason Leavitt.
Friday, 35, has been employed with the local police force since 1998 and is currently assigned to the Southeast Area Command. Butler, 32, has been a local police officer since 1999 and is assigned to the Downtown Area Command. Leavitt, 34, has been with the local police force since 2003 and is assigned to the Southeast Area Command.
Police did not release information on which two of the three officers were injured during the shootout.
On Thursday, law enforcement officials identified the man who was killed as Jeffrey Martrell Williams, 28, a fugitive wanted on a California state parole warrant for a robbery charge from a case in Anaheim.
The other fugitive, Quentin Avery, 26, was a passenger in the car driven by Williams that officers were chasing.
According to Metro Police, Avery and Williams were stopped at Desert Inn and Mojave roads by a patrol officer, then sped off. Avery ran away from the car after it crashed into a traffic light control box near Eastern and St. Louis avenues.
Police said when Williams was taken into custody, he pulled out a pistol and shot one of the officers in the leg and injured another officer by the muzzle blast.
The three officers returned fire and shot and killed Williams, who was pronounced dead at the scene. Avery was arrested for obstructing a police officer and booked into the Las Vegas Detention Center.
The officer wounded in the leg underwent surgery overnight at University Medical Center. The second officer was treated at the hospital and released.
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