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morning, a family spokeswoman said in the first official update on his condition. “That is the only thing we can confirm at this moment and cannot answer any further questions on his condition,” Alvina Alston told the Review-Journal in an email Friday. Alston is a publicist representing JaNean Mercer, Odom’s aunt who helped raise him.
isitors to the Saturday session of the 2015 Vegas Valley Book Festival at Historic Fifth Street School had the opportunity to meet a wide variety of wonderful authors. They also saw a long line that flowed from the courtyard, down a hall and into the middle of the poetry jams. Who was this literary rock star? It was something of a mystery. Now a cultural hub run by the city, the school itself is well-worth meandering through. Its courtyard and auditorium buzzed with activity with families and children enjoying everything from friendly hula hoop competitions to face painting. The kids even had a chance to hear City Councilman Bob Coffin read them a story — and it wasn’t even about the wonders of downtown redevelopment. Those who planned well and packed a lunch could spend the whole day listening to fiction writers Claire Vaye Watkins, Colum McCann and Laura McBride. The Poetry Courtyard featured Jess Flo, Joan Robinson and one of my favorite Nevada poets, Reno laureate Gailmarie Pahmeier, among many. McBride, who teaches at College of Southern Nevada, is the author of the wonderful first novel “We Are Called to Rise,” which captures once-booming modern Las Vegas in a time of recession. Her chat with Desert Companion magazine publisher Andrew Kiraly, titled “In the Wake of Success,” was full of insight and self-deprecating humor.
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ABOVE LEFT: Yenesis Alfonso, 24, Ammar Harris’ girlfriend, brushes her hair back while testifying during his murder trial. Alfonso says she told Harris the person in a car next to them was not who he had an argument with earlier, but that he still fired shots from the vehicle. ABOVE RIGHT: Harris listens while Alfonso testifies during his murder trial at Regional Justice Center, 200 Lewis Avenue, on Monday. If convicted the self-described pimp could get the death penalty in the 2013 shooting and fiery crash that killed three people on Las Vegas Boulevard. photos by Jeff Scheid/ Las Vegas Review-Journal Follow @jlscheid
Girlfriend of accused gunman says he fired shots from vehicle “I was in love with him.”
By Carri Geer Thevenot Las Vegas Review-Journal
Yenesis Alfonso testified Monday that she never heard anyone threaten her boyfriend, Ammar Harris, before he fired his gun out the window of his Range Rover the morning of Feb. 21, 2013. Harris, a self-described pimp, faces murder and other charges in connection with the shooting and a fiery crash that killed three people on the Strip that morning. Alfonso, 24, said she, Harris and two other women had entered the Range Rover after leaving the Haze Nightclub at the Aria. She said she
— Yenesis Alfonso, when asked to describe the feelings she had for Harris
was riding in the passenger seat while Harris drove with his gun on his lap. At one point, Alfonso testified, Harris cut in front of a Maserati. She said he then pulled up next to the Maserati, which was on their right, at a red light. Alfonso said she recognized the driver of the Maserati as Kenneth “Kenny” Clutch Cherry Jr. and told Harris he
was not the same person he had argued with at the nightclub. She said she reclined her seat and lowered her window at Harris’ request and heard him ask the other man, “What’s popping?” or “What’s up?” The witness said Cherry responded by asking, “Do I know you?” Alfonso said she then heard a gunshot. She said Harris had
fired his gun over her, and her ears were ringing. He then sped away on Las Vegas Boulevard. “I was on the floor at first and then I got back up on the seat,” Alfonso said. She said she thought she heard two more gunshots but did not hear the collision or explosion that followed. Prosecutors have described the shooting as a case of mistaken identity; a lawyer for Harris has said he was acting in self-defense. Cherry, also a pimp, was struck once and died. A passenger in Cherry’s car was grazed by a bullet. SEE shooting, B4
GAVE DOCTORS THUMBS-UP
Odom released from hospital, friend confirms Former NBA player reportedly flown to Los Angeles with estranged wife Professional boxer Zab Judah, who has a residence in Las Las Vegas Review-Journal Vegas, said Odom is no longer at the Las Vegas hospital. Judah told the Las Vegas A friend of Lamar Odom confirmed an E! News report that Review-Journal last week that the former NBA star and hus- he was going to visit Odom band of Khloe Kardashian was each day he was at Sunrise, but released from Sunrise Hospital he said Monday that he did not and Medical Center on Monday. know where Odom had been By Kimberly De La Cruz and Steven Moore
taken. The E! News report said Odom was en route to Los Angeles with his estranged wife via helicopter. There, he will receive more specialized treatment, entertainment news website TMZ reported. Odom was transported to Sunrise after being found unconscious at the Love Ranch brothel in Nye County, about 80 miles northwest of Las Vegas. He gave doctors a thumbsup and spoke briefly Friday
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