Monty Iverson

In the late hours of a Friday night in November 2014, the sound of gunshots pierced the air in a Las Vegas neighborhood, but when police arrived, they found nothing amiss. An hour later, another call from the same area, this time reporting a person possibly shot, led them to a grim discovery. Behind a residence in the 1300 block of Hassell Avenue, near Martin Luther King and Lake Mead boulevards, lay the body of a man.

The victim was identified as Monty Ramond Culverson, a 42-year-old mal ...