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3 Dead in Car-to-Car Shooting & Wreck on the Las Vegas Strip

Feb. 21, 2013 9:57am Madeleine Morgenstern

Las Vegas police investigate the site of what is being described as a gun battle between shooters in vehicles along the Las Vegas Strip early Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013. Gunshots were fired from a black SUV at a Maserati, causing the Maserati to crash into a taxi which then burst into flames. (Getty Images)

Three people were killed and at least six others injured after a “rolling gun battle” erupted between two cars on the famed Las Vegas Strip early Thursday morning.

Police said someone in a Range Rover opened fire on a Maserati at a stoplight, sending it crashing into a taxi which burst into flames. A total of five cars were involved in the ensuing auto wreck. The taxi’s driver, a passenger and the male driver of the Maserati were killed. The Maserati’s passenger was shot.

The attack occurred at about 4:20 a.m. at Las Vegas and Flamingo boulevards, near the Bellagio, Caesars Palace and Bally’s casinos.

“This doesn’t happen where we come from, not on this scale,” Mark Thompson, visiting from England with his wife, told the Associated Press. “We get stabbings, and gang violence, but this is like something out of a movie. Like `Die Hard’ or something.”

Police said the black Range Rover Sport with tinted windows fled the scene, and authorities were contacting authorities in three neighboring states.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

This post has been updated.

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Comments (63)

LeadNotFollow
Posted on February 23, 2013 at 3:46am
I don’t give a crap if these gangsta rappers blow each other away.
What I hate, is innocent bystanders being murdered in the middle of their feuds.
A cab driver and his female passenger burned to death because of these thugs.

Also, just down the street, a man was murdered. He was shot in the back of the head. Wonder if the same pieces of crap were involved?

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CitizenSoldier
Posted on February 22, 2013 at 10:05pm
No Obama-shakalama outrage over gun use here. No liberal outcry regarding gun deaths. No call for more gun bans. Why? Let’s see; black rapper with no track record of success, wants to be an OG Gangsta, rides in car woth two years of my salary, previous gun charges, two children out of wedlock, argues with another black bad-a*s wannabe, shoots up “family friendly” tourist destination and kills innocent by-standers. No worries, mate. them dead people are all white and were just “at the wrong place”. No RMM (rapid mass murder) here. Just some rappers letting off a little steam. Do you smell a double standard?? Guess what the Rocks got cookin’! A coming storm of casual rappers and downtown thugs vs moral American Patriots in a civil war for tyranny vs freedom. Get ready for the storm.

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Bamagal0007
Posted on February 22, 2013 at 3:49pm
Gangsta Rap is glorified by the media and this is the result of some of it…go figure.

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MCLOVINIT
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 10:39pm
Vegas is tailor-made for citizens of the
Planet of the Apes…perverted sex & violence.
Plus many of the citizens live there year round.

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South Philly Boy
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 7:18pm
Wow right in front of Bills. Vacation there in September 2012

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cdm5
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 7:00pm
Now if KING Obama TAKES all the gun’s away from those the KING want’s does that mean you just stand and “WAIT” to get shot if you did NOT vote for KING OBAMA!

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Tickdog
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 4:07pm
another day of those crazy liberals…

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fgarvin
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 1:28pm
WOOOOOOHOOOOOO three more Dumbo supports gone. What a great day so far!

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wouldubelieveit
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 12:34pm
Ahh this is nothing you have Heard of conceal and carry laws. Well in Chotago “Chicago” they have a duck and cover law , They teach at the YMCA. Be ready at all time to duck and cover. But it don’t work for the one who gets hit by the bullets.

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wilbstal
Posted on February 21, 2013 at 11:46am
Wasny Obama just out ther meddling in some one elses business, hmmmm

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