Las Vegas officers shoots man armed with a shotgun after he points it at passing vehicles

Rodney Finch, 62, stood in his front yard in the 8400 block of West Shady Shores Circle, near North Rampart Boulevard, aiming a 12-guage shotgun at vehicles passing by and later at officers who arrived in response to a 911 call on Friday night, Assistant Sheriff Lazaro Chavez told reporters at a press briefing.

Officers parked outside the house for about 20 minutes around 7:30 p.m., while Finch walked in and out of the house, at times unarmed, but sometimes holding the shotgun.

Body camera footage showed Finch in his yard, aiming the weapon at officers across Shady Shores Circle, as Metropolitan Police Department officer Jahmaal Crosby fired three rounds from a Smith and Wesson M&P 15 rifle, striking Finch in the neck.

Finch did not fire his shotgun before he was struck, but Chavez said Finch had six rounds loaded into the weapon with seven more in his pocket.

“We talked to neighbors, we talked to the victims that were there that day that had the gun pointed at them and they said that he was speaking incoherently at times, but there’s no real reason we can find at this point,” Chavez said regarding any motive Finch may have had.