Simon Ledezma

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 agen ...