Shawn Paul Del Rio, 45, male, Hispanic/Latino, was shot late Sunday night on June 27, 2010, outside a motorcycle enthusiast club near Jackson Avenue and E Street in Las Vegas. Officers were called around 11:30 p.m. and found him in a nearby vacant desert area with multiple gunshot wounds; he was pronounced dead at the scene. Early reports described an altercation at the club moments before the gunfire and said the assailant fled north on E Street.
Police circulated a description of the suspect as a Black male, about six feet tall, wearing dark clothing, and appealed for tips through Crime Stoppers as detectives opened a homicide investigation.
Within days, the Clark County coroner identified the victim as Shawn Paul Del Rio. Coverage noted the precise location and timeframe of the shooting, and authorities reiterated their request for information from the public. Separate memorial information recorded his date of death as June 28, 2010, reflecting that the killing occurred late the previous night. Obituary notices also remembered Del Rio's service as a U.S. Navy SEAL and listed surviving family members.
Contemporaneous accounts did not name a suspect, and they reported no arrests in the immediate aftermath. The public appeals and suspect description remained the primary leads publicly disclosed at the time, and no subsequent reports located indicate that an arrest was announced in this case.
