2 shot, killed after altercation in Las Vegas business parking lot

A 24-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a weekend shooting that left two dead in the east Las Vegas Valley, police said Tuesday.

Metropolitan Police Department officers responded to reports of a shooting in the parking lot of a business in the 3900 block of East Owens Avenue at 1:31 a.m. Sunday.

Officers found two men, identified by the Clark County coroner’s office as Carlos Garcia Sanchez, 21, and Luis Esquivel, 24, suffering from apparent gunshot wounds. They both were pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

Homicide detectives learned that the victims were leaving a party at a banquet hall, police said.

At some point, according to police, a verbal altercation occurred, and a man, later identified as Julio Bautista-Martinez, allegedly shot the victims.

Authorities said Bautista-Martinez fled the scene but was later taken into custody and booked in at the Clark County Detention Center.