Feb 21 - Las Vegas Strip Shooting: 3 Dead After Shootout Leads To Multi-Vehicle Crash, Police Say

By KEN RITTER 02/21/13 10:30 AM ET EST

LAS VEGAS — A gunfight between a Maserati and an SUV on the Las Vegas Strip caused a fiery crash at an intersection involving a taxi that burst into flames, leaving three people dead and at least three injured early Thursday, police said.

The Maserati driver, the taxi driver and a passenger in the cab were k!lled. The SUV got away.

In all, five vehicles were involved in the dramatic crash around 4:30 a.m. Thursday at Flamingo and Las Vegas boulevards, a wide intersection surrounded by some of the most famous casinos on the Strip, including the Bellagio, Caesars Palace and the Paris.

It started with people in the Maserati and the SUV exchanging gunfire before the high-end sports car hit the taxi, said Sgt. John Sheahan. Three other vehicles were involved in the wreck, but the SUV was gone when police arrived, Sheahan said.

Several people were taken to the hospital, including a passenger from the Maserati. Four were taken to University Medical Center. Hospital spokeswoman Danita Cohen said three were treated and released, while one person remained in the hospital. Their condition was not released.

The intersection is expected to be closed for hours as officers investigate.

A tourist who witnessed the aftermath of the crash told KLAS-TV the burning taxi looked like a fireball.

More people may be hurt, Sheahan said.

It's the latest in a series of violent actions on the tourist corridor since the beginning of the year. Two people were critically wounded in a shooting at a parking garage Feb. 6, and a tourist was st@bbed in an elevator at The Hotel at Mandalay Bay Feb. 16.


A spokesman for the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, Jeremy Handel, said his organization didn't immediately have a comment on the incident and deferred to the police unit that patrols the tourism district.

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Associated Press writer Michelle Rindels contributed to this report.

Las Vegas Strip Shooting: 3 Dead After Shootout Leads To Multi-Vehicle Crash, Police Say

smh. if i had a maserati id avoid all issues. id just smash hoes and let rappers rent out the whip

fun fact: tupac was shot at the same location

wouldve been wild too actually witness that

I just stayed at Paris 2 weeks ago


GTA Vegas

Thank god I left vegas on tuesday

close by..but pac was shot on flamingo and koval

supposedly a rapper died in this shooting. does anyone have any more info? and no im not talking about tupacs shooting. im talking about the one that just happened

Damn Kenneth Clutch got touched...died after being shot by dudes in the Range Rover while driving maserati ...rapper from Bay


Clutch had beef *why u so fake ken ? i kno where u live u kno where im at wats hatnin? u run n hide like uh !! nicca. fuk wit my fam again n its GREEN LIGHT on yo mark azz *

this the dude mistah fab was talkin about earlier.. sayin his man got k!lled in vegas..

Damn.


LMAO at white people getting scared and canceling their vacations, people get shot everyday.

i seen a masi and automatically thought of philthy.. but damn R.I.P
kenny clutch tho.. leave it to bay niccas to take funk outta state ..

kenny aint no real rapper this nicca was slanging cain to get that maserati. must have been some dope business !!.

If ur in a maserati your low to the ground and fast. You shouldn't be shooting it out with a suv cuz you will just be a sitting duck. All dude had to do was hit the gas and blow it on them he'd prolly be alive now.

[pic] niccas in the SUV just completed a mission, but now they got the cops looking for them.. got them 4 wanted stars that are grey because they're in hiding

Damn, had to be some rapper foos. But forreal, at the news conference, they were saying that they will not tolerate this !! no more, they are about to start beating up brothas in Vegas now lol

U wud think dude wuda been able to get away in tha mazzi but I guess not

sounds fishy maybe the fbi is taking all these drug dealers out on the low, this guy was an easy target for them since he was driving an expensive car. [pic]

like that scene out of bad boys 2 [pic]

I'm going out to Vegas again next month and police are going to be deep now. They don't let people do anything that will affect tourism (especially with the way the economy is). It's Vegas, enjoy the free drinks and plethora of hoes. People can't enjoy !! nowadays. [pic]