Findings in Vegas protest death case leave some dissatisfied

LAS VEGAS — Family members and vocal demonstrators in Las Vegas were left dissatisfied Friday by the investigation into the police killing of a man who carried guns and wore body armor while facing off with officers during racial justice street protests last June. Bullhorn chants of “Justice for Jorge Gomez” from outside could be heard inside a hearing room while the lead investigator, Las Vegas police Detective Jason Leavitt, described video depicting a cascade of confusion before four veteran officers killed Jorge Antonio Gomez with 19 shots in less than three seconds. Later, Gomez family attorney Rodolfo Gonzalez told reporters and about 50 supporters: “There was no evidence that Jorge raised a gun, and yet they killed him.” Race was not a theme but the chants outside the Clark County Government Center echoed unease in Minnesota surrounding the trial of a white Minneapolis police officer in the death of a black man, George Floyd, last May, and unrest following the shooting death by a white officer of a black motorist, Daunte Wright, last Sunday. Gomez, 25, was fatally shot June 1 outside a downtown Las Vegas U.S. courthouse — wounded in the head, face, abdomen, hip, back, side, left hand and thigh — just moments after a Las Vegas police officer had been shot and gravely wounded amid protests farther down Las Vegas Boulevard. Gomez runs outside of camera view, where four veteran Las Vegas police officers — Sgt.