Daniel Delgado, 19, a Hispanic/Latino male, was shot to death on September 1, 2008, while sitting in the garage of a home near Sahara Avenue and Lamb Boulevard in Las Vegas. Responding to reports of gunfire, officers found him in the 3900 block of James Paul Avenue with at least one gunshot wound to the chest. He was identified by the Clark County coroner's office shortly after the attack.
According to investigators, an unknown assailant approached the open garage and fired before fleeing, leaving few immediate clues behind. Police said no arrests had been made as of the following day, and public pleas for information went out to the community, including contact numbers for the homicide unit and Crime Stoppers. Aggregated case summaries place the killing on Labor Day and reflect the case details released at the time.
Open-source case listings and contemporaneous coverage do not document any later arrest specifically tied to this shooting, and they continue to portray the gunman as unidentified. The portrait that emerges from these reports is of a targeted attack in a quiet residential setting, with detectives relying on tips to move the investigation forward.
