On the evening of March 6, 2021, Justin Irving, 25, was shot in the head in the parking lot of the Emerald Suites on Paradise Road, just east of the Las Vegas Strip. Irving was seated in a parked car with a female companion when another man arrived, got into the vehicle and produced a firearm. The shooter then fired, struck Irving, and fled in a dark-colored sedan. The female passenger was unharmed and flagged down passing patrol officers.

Irving was taken to Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center in critical condition and later died; the Clark County coroner determined the cause of death to be a gunshot wound to the head and the death was ruled a homicide. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department opened a homicide investigation and asked the public for help. No arrests have been publicly announced.

If anyone was in or near the Emerald Suites parking lot that evening or saw a dark-colored sedan leave the area, please come forward with what was observed.