LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Las Vegas investigative reporter was stabbed to death outside his home and police are looking for a suspect, authorities said.
Las Vegas
Metropolitan Police officers found journalist Jeff German, 69, dead with stab
wounds around 10:30 a.m. Saturday after authorities received a 911 call, the
Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.
German died
of “multiple sharp force injuries” in a homicide, the Clark County Office of
the Coroner/Medical Examiner said Sunday.
It appears
German was in an altercation with another person that led to the stabbing,
which is believed to be an isolated incident, police said.
“We believe
the altercation took place outside of the home,” Capt. Dori Koren, a Las Vegas
Metropolitan Police Department spokesman, said at a news conference. “We do
have some leads. We are pursuing a suspect but the suspect is outstanding.”
Glenn Cook,
the Review-Journal’s executive editor, said German had not communicated any
concerns about his personal safety or any threats made against him to anyone in
the newspaper’s leadership.
“The Review-Journal family is devastated to
lose Jeff,” Cook said in a statement. “He was the gold standard of the news
business. It’s hard to imagine what Las Vegas would be like today without his
many years of shining a bright light on dark places.”
German
joined the Review-Journal in 2010 after more than two decades at the Las Vegas
Sun, where he was a columnist and reporter who covered courts, politics, labor,
government and organized crime.
He was known
for his stories about government malfeasance and political scandals and
coverage of the 2017 mass shooting at a Las Vegas music festival that killed 60
people and wounded more than 400 others.
According to
the Review-Journal, German held a master’s degree from Marquette University and
was the author of the 2001 true-crime book “Murder in Sin City: The Death of a
Las Vegas Casino Boss,” the story of the death of Ted Binion, heir to the
Horseshoe Club fortune.