Javier Aguero Zuniga, a 30-year-old male Hispanic/Latino, was found shot to death on Monday, April 4, 2016, inside a vacant, boarded-up apartment near the north end of the Las Vegas Strip. Officers were called to the building at 242 West Boston Avenue after complaints of heavy foot traffic in and out of a unit that had been secured with plywood the night before; when police arrived, the plywood had been removed and Zuniga was discovered inside. The Clark County coroner determined he died from a gunshot wound to the chest, and his death was ruled a homicide.
Detectives with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department’s homicide unit opened an investigation the same day, canvassing the area and seeking leads about who had entered the apartment in the hours before the discovery. Early coverage emphasized the unusual setting—a recently boarded-up unit opened again within hours—and asked for information from anyone who might have seen suspicious activity around the building that weekend.
Public records and contemporaneous news reports do not identify any suspect by name in Zuniga’s case, and there is no announcement of an arrest tied to this specific homicide in the months and years that followed. Police statements at the time described the investigation as ongoing, with detectives searching for the gunman responsible; available reporting since then has not documented charges or arrests tied to Zuniga’s killing.
