Francisco Alvarez, a 26-year-old Hispanic/Latino man, was killed on June 29, 2009, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Online reporting describes his death as the result of a shooting, cutting short a life caught in the crosscurrents of violence that marked parts of the city that summer.
Accounts from that period frame the case within a broader pattern of gun violence and gang-linked tension that detectives were working to untangle, adding urgency to the search for answers in Alvarez’s killing. Inve
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