Simon Ledezma, 30, a Hispanic/Latino man, was killed in Las Vegas on July 24, 2008, his death ruled a homicide. The available public record is spare on circumstance, but it places him among the city’s victims whose cases were opened by local authorities in the heat of a summer night and then left to the long shadow of time, waiting for the detail that might finally tie the scene to a name, a motive, a suspect.
Investigators with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department are the agency of record for the case, and his name appears on public cold-case listings that collect unresolved homicides linked to LVMPD. Yet despite periodic appeals for information and the department’s ongoing cold-case efforts, there have been no publicly reported arrests and no suspect identifications announced in connection with Ledezma’s killing. The case remains one of the many entries that rely on community tips to move forward.
