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UPDATE: Police identify bar hopper found shot at gas station

Posted at 7:14 AM, Oct 26, 2017
and last updated 2017-11-01 10:52:13-04

UPDATE NOV 1: On Oct. 26, at approximately 6:20 a.m. officers found a man shot in the chest in a gas station parking lot in the 4100 block of S. Durango. The victim was pronounced deceased in the backseat of the vehicle by medical personnel.

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Homicide Section indicates the victim, 32-year-old Eugene Thomas Bell, and a female had been drinking at various locations throughout town. At some point, the female became aware the male had been shot and drove to a business seeking assistance.

Due to the female's level of intoxication, she was unable to provide detectives with the location of the crime, time of the incident or persons involved.

ORIGINAL STORY: Officers responded to the Terrible's gas station located at 4150 South Durango Drive after receiving reports of a male shot. Officers arrived on scene and found man dead with a gunshot wound to the chest.

The investigation is in the preliminary stages but no further information is known at this time.