Woman whose body was found in burnt vehicle had been shot

A pistillate whose body was recovered successful May wrong a burnt vehicle successful the acold eastbound Las Vegas Valley had been fatally shot, the Clark County coroner’s bureau said Tuesday.

The coroner’s bureau successful June identified the pistillate arsenic 39-year-old Sandra Cruz-Lopez. On Tuesday, the bureau said her decease was a homicide owed to aggregate gunshot wounds.

Cruz-Lopez’s assemblage was recovered the greeting of May 9 successful a scorched conveyance connected Bureau of Land Management spot adjacent authorities Route 147, oregon Lake Mead Boulevard, successful the country of Frenchman Mountain, the Metropolitan Police Department has said.

Homicide detectives were called to the country successful May, but further accusation astir Cruz-Lopez’s decease has not been released.

Anyone with accusation whitethorn interaction Metro’s homicide conception astatine 702-828-3521 or, to stay anonymous, Crime Stoppers astatine 702-385-5555.

Contact Katelyn Newberg astatine knewberg@reviewjournal.com oregon 702-383-0240. Follow @k_newberg connected Twitter.