Demario Berry, a 20-year-old African-American male, was walking along the 1700 block of Curran Way near H Street and Owens Avenue on the afternoon of April 10, 2014, when violence found him. According to police, he had been speaking with an unidentified man moments before another person approached and opened fire. Officers responding to multiple 911 calls discovered Berry on the ground in front of a home; he was rushed to University Medical Center, where he died of multiple gunshot wounds. The Clark County coroner later identified him, fixing the date and place of the attack in a neighborhood just northwest of downtown Las Vegas.
Detectives pieced together the sequence in the fading light: a brief encounter, a sudden approach, several shots, and a suspect fleeing on foot before sirens filled the street. Early reports noted no suspects in custody, and contemporaneous coverage emphasized that investigators were seeking leads. Subsequent summaries of the case echo the same details—time, location, and manner of death—without indicating that an arrest ever followed, underscoring the lingering uncertainty around who pulled the trigger and why.
In the days that followed, the facts remained stark and spare: a young life ended in daylight, a residential block shaken, and a family left without answers. Public appeals for information continued as the case joined the ranks of Las Vegas homicides from that year in which investigators publicly listed the shooter as unknown. There is no record in the reporting of any subsequent arrests tied to the killing, and authorities have not announced an identified suspect.
