“Mobbed Up” host Jeff German, poses with Planet Hollywood, formerly Aladdin, in the background on the Strip in Las Vegas, June 2, 2021.
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“Mobbed Up” host Jeff German, poses with Planet Hollywood, formerly Aladdin, in the background on the Strip in Las Vegas, June 2, 2021.
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LAS VEGAS – Police released surveillance images Monday of a possible suspect in the fatal stabbing of a Las Vegas newspaper investigative reporter, although the image does not show the person’s full face. .
Images released by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department on Monday show a person wearing a wide straw hat, bright orange reflective long-sleeved shirt, blue jeans, gray shoes and carrying a colored shoulder bag. black or dark green.
Police are asking for the public’s help in finding any additional surveillance footage as they continue to search for suspects in the murder of Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Jeff German.
Duc, 69, was found stabbed to death outside his home around 10:30 a.m. Saturday after authorities received a 911 call.
Duc died of “multiple sharp force wounds” in a homicide, the Clark County Medical Examiner’s Office/Medical Examiner said Sunday.
According to police, it appears that Duc got into a fight with another person which led to the stabbing.
Police believe the suspect was covering up the residential area to commit other crimes when Germany was killed.
“We take this incident very seriously and our investigators have worked tirelessly to identify and arrest the suspect,” Captain Dori Koren, a police spokesman, said in a statement. .
Glenn Cook, executive editor of the Review-Journal, said German has not reported any concerns about his personal safety or any threats against him to any who is on the board of the newspaper.
German joined the Review-Journal in 2010 after more than two decades at the Las Vegas Sun, where he was a journalist and columnist covering the courts, politics, labor, government and crime. organized crime.
He is known for his stories of government malfeasance and political scandals as well as for covering the 2017 mass shooting at a music festival in Las Vegas that left 60 people dead and more than 100 people dead. Another 400 people were injured.
According to Review-Journal, German graduated with a master’s degree from Marquette University and is the author of the 2001 true-crime book “Murder in Sin City: The Death of a Las Vegas Casino Boss,” the story of Ted’s death. Binion, heir to the Horseshoe Club fortune.
