Las Vegas police are withholding public records from a Nov. 18 fatal northwest valley crash in which a teenager is accused of intentionally ramming into 11 vehicles stopped at a red light.

These denials come as the Metropolitan Police Department increasingly declares records sought by the public should be kept secret and as a pending Nevada Supreme Court case could lead to a ruling that records related to open criminal cases or investigations may be kept secret .

Since the collision, the Las Vegas Review-Journal has sought from the Metropolitan Police Department recordings of 911 calls, body camera footage from responding officers, and video of the crash itself, which is mentioned in the arrest report of the suspect, 19-year-old Jose Gutierrez.

Three people died as a result of the crash

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