The Metropolitan Police Department said Tuesday that they have arrested a juvenile in connection to a homicide that occurred earlier this month in the northeast Las Vegas Valley after an apparent house party.

The 17-year-old, who was not identified, was taken into custody on Friday and booked into the Clark County Detention Center on suspected open murder with a deadly weapon, according to a news release. But a log of Metro’s arrests posted on Saturday identified the suspect as Elijah Belt-Campbell, and online records from Las Vegas Justice Court show Belt-Campbell made an initial appearance Tuesday morning.

The Clark County district attorney’s office could not immediately be reached to answer whether Belt-Campbell would be tried as an adult. Court records did not state when Belt-Campbel

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