The suspect in the fatal shooting of a Las Vegas police officer appeared in court Friday morning.
In the brief appearance, Tyson Shawn Jordan Hampton, 24, was ordered held without bail.
Hampton was arrested several blocks away shortly after the shooting that killed Officer Truong Thai early Thursday not far from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, authorities said.
“The tragic part about this is [that] from the evidence, this defendant was being investigated for a misdemeanor,” District Attorney Steve Wolfson told reporters. “That’s why it’s a sad day. It didn’t have to happen. This officer didn’t have to lose his life.”…