In USA, a gunman died by suicide after he fatally shot five people and critically injured another in an apartment complex near Las Vegas, ending a manhunt lasting several hours on Tuesday.The North Las Vegas Police Department said 57-year-old Eric Adams ignored officers' commands to drop his firearm and fatally shot himself in the backyard of a residence in the 1600 block of Dwayne Stedman Avenue. Earler,Police in North Las Vegas on Tuesday captured a man they suspect shot and killed five people in an apartment complex, according to local media reports.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal newspaper, citing a police statement, said that in addition to the five dead, a 13-year-old girl was also shot and is in critical condition at a nearby hospital.Police identified the suspect as Eric Adams, 57, according to the Review-Journal. He is suspected of carrying out the shooting late on Monday in two different apartments within the same apartment complex.
Police did not provide details on any possible motive for the shooting, nor did they say when or how they arrested Adams. Names of the victims have not been released, though police said that four women and one man were among those killed, according to the newspaper.
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