Crime & Safety
Las Vegas Police Probe Body In Burned Car
The car matches the description of one that fled the scene of a robbery about 40 minutes earlier.
When firefighters responded to the 600 block of Castor Tree Way near Cheyenne Avenue and Rainbow Boulevard around 4:30 Thursday morning, they were not expecting to find a dead body inside. So, they called homicide detectives.
They were told by neighbors that they heard gunshots just before the car went burst into flames.
Then the story got more interesting. (Subscribe to local news alerts on Patch).
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Detectives discovered that the vehicle matched the description of the one that fled a robbery at the Five Star Tavern at the intersection of Rainbow Boulevard and Smoke Ranch Road around 40 minutes earlier.
The Clark County Coroner's Office will determine the identity of the man who who was found dead in the car.
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