Longtime Las Vegas Investigative Reporter Jeff German Fatally Stabbed Saturday Outside Home

CLARK COUNTY, LV. (THECOUNT) — Jeff German, a longtime investigative reporter for Las Vegas Sun and more recently Review Journal, has been identified as the victim in a fatal stabbing early Saturday morning near his las Vegas home.

German, 69, was fatally stabbed in what police are calling an “isolated incident,” outside his Bronze Circle home on Saturday morning. The suspect in the deadly incident remains at large.

According to Las Vegas Metropolitan Police, German’s body was discovered about 10:30 a.m. Saturday after they responded to a man down call at 7216 Bronze Circle in Las Vegas.

Police said it appeared German was involved in an altercation with another person outside his home when he was stabbed.

German joined the Las Vegas Review-Journal in 2010 after more than two decades at the Las Vegas Sun, where he was a columnist and reporter who covered courts, politics, labor, government and organized crime, a story by The Associated Press said.

He worked on dozens of investigative pieces for both papers and also wrote a book in 2001 on the death of Ted Binion: “Murder in Sin City: The Death of a Las Vegas Casino Boss.”

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