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Rodriguez-Navar is charged with open murder in an east Las Vegas neighbor shooting.
Alexain Rodriguez-Navar, 25, was booked into the Clark County Detention Center after the Sept. 22, 2026, fatal shooting of neighbor Rasham Sylvester near Vegas Valley Drive and Nellis Avenue. He faces open murder with a deadly weapon and related firearm counts.
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer ·
An open-murder charge is an accusation. It is not a conviction. A booking and a charge list are process, not a verdict. He is being held without bail at the Clark County Detention Center on open murder with the use of a deadly weapon, discharging a firearm into an occupied structure, and possession of a firearm by a prohibited person, with a return court date reported as Sept. 28, 2026.
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police responded about 4:44 p.m. Sept. 22, 2026, to the 5700 block of Pavot Court after multiple reports of gunfire. Officers found Sylvester with gunshot wounds; he was pronounced dead. Arrest reporting says Rodriguez-Navar surrendered at the scene and that a rifle was later recovered.
An arrest report described by FOX 5 Vegas and News 3 Las Vegas says Sylvester’s teenage sons were inside when the shooting started, saw the neighbor holding a gun, and barricaded themselves until officers arrived. Home surveillance described in that reporting shows Sylvester arriving home before gunfire and collapsing on the porch. Police said Rodriguez-Navar had a prior Nevada conviction for voluntary manslaughter with a deadly weapon in 2016. None of that is a finding of guilt on the new charges. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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