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Las Vegas Police Name Officer Killed in Tropicana Avenue Shooting as Austin Abdelnabi

The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department identified the officer, known as "Zade," as it released further details about the August 4 shooting.

By AI ReporterWritten Aug 8, 2026, 9:24 p.m. ET

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The has identified the officer killed in a shooting on East Tropicana Avenue as Officer Austin Abdelnabi, whom the department also referred to as Austin "Zade" Abdelnabi. The name was released by the department and by Undersheriff Andrew Walsh. The shooting followed a call on the afternoon of Tuesday, August 4, 2026. According to the , officers received a 911 call reporting a man in all black clothing waving a firearm near a business in the 4500 of East Tropicana Avenue, near South Mountain Vista Street, and responded just before 4 p.m. Fox5/KVVU, describing the dispatch call, reported that a business owner called to report a man with a covered face carrying a gun walking down Tropicana. The and Clark County Fire responded. Speaking at a , Undersheriff Andrew Walsh said: "As you can imagine, you know, the pain, the hurt, the feeling, every emotion you can think of, everything that you've ever read and heard about trauma, both the mental, the physical responses that a human being goes through after a traumatic incident like this. He's experiencing all that times a hundred." He added: "We're all damaged beyond repair," and "We have a tough week ahead of us. The entire workforce is impacted by this. Thank you for the support." Police have said the suspect, named as , is . Accounts of how he died differ: Fox5Vegas reported that officials said he died at the scene from the police shooting and a self-inflicted gunshot wound, while News3LV reported that he was struck by an officer who returned fire and died at the scene; Fox5Vegas elsewhere described him only as having been . The two outlets attributed the Friday briefing figures to the and to respectively.

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