In the predawn hours of August 23, 2015, a standoff in a Las Vegas neighborhood ended with the death of 57-year-old William Lee Snider. Neighbors reported shots fired at the home on the 400 block of Lakehurst Road, and responding Las Vegas Metropolitan Police found Snider armed with a rifle. A SWAT team and crisis negotiators spent hours trying to de-escalate the situation while he repeatedly refused to put the weapon down.

At one point Snider walked down his driveway armed and raised the rifle toward officers who were in an armored vehicle. Two SWAT snipers on nearby rooftops fired, striking Snider. He was taken to University Medical Center with multiple gunshot wounds and later died; the Clark County Coroner recorded the cause of death as multiple gunshot wounds. The Clark County District Attorney’s Office reviewed the incident and concluded the officers’ use of lethal force was legally justified; no arrests were made.

Does anyone have information about what led up to the shots fired report or who knew Snider in that neighborhood?