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Kenyon Tyler, 26, was fatally shot the evening of February 11, 2018, on the 2600 block of Van Patten Street in Las Vegas, near Sahara Avenue and Paradise Road. Officers found him on the ground with multiple gunshot wounds; he was taken to Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center and died during surgery at about 11:15 p.m. Police said the shooting grew out of an altercation over a drug sale and had ties to gang activity.

About two hours after the first shooting, investigators at the scene heard more gunfire roughly a block away on the 2500 block of Sherwood Street. A second man was shot at least once and was expected to survive; authorities described the two incidents as related, possibly retaliatory, but believed different shooters fired in each attack.

Police arrested 29-year-old Deandre Terelle Gathrite on a charge of murder with a deadly weapon in connection with Tyler’s death. Investigators recovered a handgun at Gathrite’s apartment that matched shell casings from the Van Patten Street scene, and a witness identified Gathrite in a photo lineup. Gathrite was also charged as a felon in possession of a firearm and has prior felony convictions including kidnapping and attempted murder.

Did anyone in the area see or hear anything that could shed more light on what led up to the argument?