The Latest: Man, rental car sought in deadly Vegas shooting
By Associated Press
Feb 19, 2016 1:57 PM CST

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Latest on a shooting that killed two women and left a man wounded just off the Las Vegas Strip (all times local):

11:55 a.m.

Police have released a description of a man and a rental car sought after a fight at a Las Vegas Strip shopping mall and a nearby vehicle-to-vehicle shooting left two women dead and a man seriously wounded.

Las Vegas police Lt. Dan McGrath says surveillance video from the Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood shows the shooter is a tall thin black man in his 20s.

He was wearing a Chicago Bulls cap, white T-shirt, blue jeans and white athletic shoes.

McGrath says the man was among several people who scuffled about 1:15 a.m. Friday with the three people who were later shot.

Police say the man is then seen on parking lot video getting into a light blue or gray 2015 Toyota Camry from which shots were fired, wounding the three victims in a silver Hyundai driving over an Interstate 15 overpass.

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8:40 a.m.

Las Vegas police say two women are dead and a man was hospitalized with a gunshot wound after a car-to-car shooting.

The violence erupted after an argument at the Miracle Mile shops. Surveillance video showed the scuffle, which was broken up by security guards. Las Vegas police Lt. Dan McGrath said the video shows a man with a gun get into a 2015 Toyota Camry moments later.

Police say shots were fired from the Camry into a Hyundai. One woman was found fatally wounded on the road, the other fatally wounded woman drove into the valet area of the Cosmopolitan hotel-casino.

McGrath said the car rolled to a stop, bumping another vehicle with the woman slumped behind the wheel.

The Clark County Coroner said the victims have not been identified.

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7:45 a.m.

Officials say police remain at the Cosmopolitan hotel-casino on the Las Vegas Strip several hours after an early morning shooting left two dead and another injured.

The hotel-casino said in a statement that Las Vegas police were helping deal with the aftermath.

Police have said a fight started across the street at the Planet Hollywood site before two women were found fatally shot and a man wounded.

Clark County Deputy Fire Chief Jon Klassen said emergency crews responded to the area near the southern end of the tourism hot spot about 1:30 a.m.

He said there were people treated at the scene and taken to University Medical Center.

The hospital couldn't immediately provide information.

Planet Hollywood's parent company, Caesars Entertainment, couldn't immediately be reached.

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6:20 a.m.

Las Vegas police say two people are dead and another is injured after an early morning shooting near the Strip.

Lt. Dan McGrath told Las Vegas TV station KVVU-TV (http://bit.ly/1LwYBq5) that a fight broke out Friday in a parking garage at the Miracle Mile Shops. About 10 minutes later, police got word of the shooting.

Police say a car drove into the valet of the Cosmopolitan hotel on the Strip with a fatally injured woman and a wounded man inside. A second woman was found in the street at the scene of the shooting and died hours later.

Police say they are reviewing surveillance video of the fight. McGrath says no one is in custody.