Las Vegas police shoot, kill suspect after road rage incident

Update March 23

The deceased’s cause of death was a gunshot wound to the head. His manner of death has been ruled a homicide.

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - An officer with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department shot and killed a suspect after a road rage incident Friday near Charleston and Lamb.

LVMPD said at 11:01 a.m., police received a call for service in regard to a road rage incident that was all caught on camera by another driver on the road.

Police identified the suspect as 60-year-old William Konkol.

Police said they attempted to stop him but said he refused to stop and that is when they followed Konkol and police body cam video showed officers having to forcibly stop the vehicle.

Police said Konkol then tried to drive the car towards the officers and fired once at the officers who then fired back.

Konkol died on scene and police added he stole the gun from a motorcyclist before getting into the road rage dispute.

Konkol fired one round with that gun and the three officers that responded to this incident fired between 10 and 17 rounds.

This was LVMPD’s 8th deadly officer involved shooting for 2022.

No officers were injured. LVMPD identified the officers involved in the shooting as Officer Fernando Sotelo, 28; Officer Alberto Guzman, 27; and Officer Justin Terranova, 28. All have been employed with LVMPD since 2017.

Further information will be provided at a later time.

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