Felipe Dantas, 38, was found with a gunshot wound to the head and pronounced dead at the scene of a shooting on August 15, 2024. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department responded about 6:45 p.m. to a vacant apartment on the 3000 block of South Nellis Boulevard near Vegas Valley Drive, where officers discovered Dantas.

Investigators later arrested 34-year-old Melvin Alexander on August 27, 2024, in connection with Dantas’s death; Alexander was booked into the Clark County Detention Center on suspicion of open murder with a deadly weapon. Dantas’s killing is one of several recent fatal shootings in the area, underlining ongoing concerns about gun violence in the community.

If anyone has information about Felipe Dantas, his movements that evening, or the incident at the vacant apartment, please come forward.