after their apartment complex is riddled with bullet holes. plus... an elementary school goes on lockdown after an incident with student... after she's attacked on campus. students at u-n-l-v can expect to receive a crime alert in their email today. telling them to keep an eye out attacked a girl on campus. 13 action news reporter marissa kynaston has the details from police.

stay with a group, i'm always with somebody, or i stay inside, i don't like being alone outside, especially since it's an open campus so you never know who might come in 14:15:09:28 marissa tag these emergency phones are scattered across campus-- all you have to do is press this button and an elementary school was put on lockdown today because police say four kids they believe were in a stolen car also had a gun. it happened at culley elementary school near officers noticed a stolen car and tried to pull it over about a mile away. but the suspects took off and drove near the school. thats when officers say all four of them scattered. they say the driver had a gun. police immediately put culley on lockdown while searching for the suspects. one neighbor we talked with said the suspects couldnt have been much older than his son. steven strombotne: i have a 13 year old child, it's very shocking all four suspects have been taken into custody.

overnight-- bullets flying outside an apartment complex

for comfort. only on thirteen action news.... parker collins shows us why they don't even feel safe in their own home anymore. 20:41:59-20:42:20 i'm counting 22 evidence markers right here alone you can see all these bullet holes that went into this apartment overnight take vo at 20:42:07 police are saying no one was inside here but in the apartment behind this one there was a family in that one small children as well made it all the way through one even going into their refrigerator. take sot no super mom 20:10:31-20:10:37 "i'm scared. the only thing i think about is my kids. any one of my kids could've been in that pantry." 20:42:59-20:43:08 police can't say exactly why this happened but they can say no one was hurt near owens and sandhill parker collins 13 action news. a violent morning on the las vegas strip... someone was robbed and shot outside the peppermill.

off to investigate. they say a man was robbed by two people. he was shot in the leg and taken to the hospital. he's expected to be okay. police are looking for the two suspects. new information today on the pahrump middle school student taken into custody for bringing a gun to school. the nye county sheriff's department says the teen is expected to face a juvenile charge of possession of a firearm at a school. the boy was taken into custody after a teacher confiscated the gun. authorities say there was no ammo in it, and the teen never a man is behind bars today accused of luring kids into his home and assaulting them. and now police are worried there may be more victims out there. 63-year-old jose azucena is charged with multiple counts of kidnapping, sexual assault, and lewdness with a child. investigators tell us for the past year, he used candy to lure children to his apartment near chareston and nellis. if you think your child could

call police immediately. power is back on after a car hit a light pole near nellis and owens. our cameras got this video of the damage. about 100 people in the area were without power for awhile. originally n-v energy was reporting 14-hundred customers were affected... but crews were worked throughout the night. up next on 13 action news at 3..... after months of backlash over protests during the national anthem. some kent state university players decided they wanted to show you what they came up with. also coming up.. more meetings from president-elect donald trump after his meeting with two governors.... remember chopper 13 is bringing you breaking news fast and first. and a look at today's closing numbers.. the dow up 36 points, closing just above 18,900

plays and others have sat to make a statement. but yesterday...

the men's basketball team decided to do something positive when the anthem was played prior to their game against the mississippi valley state. each member of the team went into the stands just before the song and invited a member of the crowd to join them on the court . the players came up with this idea themselves... kent state says that the team wanted to do this "as a show of unity during a divided time in america." donald trump continues to hold high powered meetings today from trump tower, while his number two, mike pence, make trump tweeting that his transition team is doing a 'fantastic' job. but sources tell abc news the transition is full of internal fighting. one potential problem for team trump, jared kushner, trumps son in law. reports have the family member taking a formal role in the white house. the legality of the move has been questioned by ethics

today - trump aide kelly anne conway denies those reports. but says kushner will remain involved kellyanne conway: "jared was incredibly important to our campaign effort and to the election and he's a trusted adviser of his father-in-law. that won't change. the other big headache, trump's choice of stephen bannon as white house counselor. the former head of breitbart news... who has ties to white nationalists. former presidential nominee hillary clinton gives her first public election-- and it was an emotional one for her. clinton was honored at the children's defense fund's gala in washington d-c... the former secretary of state talked about what the last few days have been like for her. (hillary clinton, (d) former presidential nominee) there have been a few times this week when all i wanted to do was just to curl up with a good book or our dogs and never leave the house again. for our values and never ever

appearance at this event before the election... and said she wanted to honor that committment to show how important the children's defense fund is to her. coming up.... parents know small children are required to ride in booster seats. but they may not know which popular brands are getting low marks for safety. we'll let you know which ones to avoid. and... groups is celebrating life on the las vegas strip!

strong gusts knocked over a sign just north of the airport

one. crews have cleared things up and the road is back open. from contact 13 today... a consumer alert for parents. safety officials are out with the latest booster seat ratings... and they are seeing huge improvements in the products. 48 of the 53 models evaluated by the insurance institute for highway saftey are getting a "best bet" rating-- the highest a product can get. however... the "cosco easy elite and the cosco high back two in one... were rated "not recommended." there that depending on the size of your child, officials say they might not protect them as well. we'll put the full list on our website for you. let's go to 13 first alert chief meteorologist bryan scofield.

afternoon, still a few degrees shy of the normal. winds will be light. a freeze warning is in place for western clark and southern nye county (including pahrump). also for central mojave county (including kingman). because morning lows will be so chilly, checking your 4 ps is a good idea! pipes, pets, plants and peopl exposed outdoor pipes should be wrapped and insulated. outdoor potted plants and pets should be brought inside for warmth. in las vegas we are not going to freeze but elevations above 3,500 feet could and the outlying typical cold areas might by friday morning.

will take over again and mainly sunny skies and light winds will be common. high temperatures look to rise but only to the monday may bring a small chance for rain with the approach of a new disturbance but models are not all on the same page just yet. but this system will help keep our temperatures in the mid 60s.>

in news out of hollywood.. frank ocean has no interest in the grammys -- at least not this time around. the singer and songwriter decided not to submit his long-awaited sophomore album "blonde," for consideration. ocean told the new york times: "the grammy's as an institution has "nostalgic importance" but doesn't represent very well r people who come from where i come from." the "thinking about you" singer won two grammys in 20-13, but says this year will serve as his "colin kaepernick moment." he's sitting this one out! today has been declared blue man group day! clark county and the city of las vegas have officially made november 17th the day to celebrate a group daring to live in color for 25 years.... their first performance was at the astor place theatre in new

celebrations monday when they recieved a key to the las vegas strip.... blue man group has performed its award-winning production on the strip for more than 10-thousandshows. up next on 13 action news.... squatters take over one las vegas valley neigbhorhood..... hear one woman's reactions to this invasion in her summerlin subdivision.... you're watching 13 action news, where you get breaking news fast and first.

learned that first hn some squatters moved onto her street. /nat sequence with drilling boards and spray painting no trespassing/ the boarded up windows and trespassing warnings will hopefully be the straw that breaks the squatters backs at this summerlin home. /nat pop/ but for nearly a year... 5:27 sue: i felt like a prisoner in my own home a lot of the time. i wasn't even comfortable going in my own backyard because of them being so close. neighbors sue and georgia are

3:28 georgia: a big concern to me was there's a school very nearby. sue lives right next door. she called police one night after hearing a woman screaming from inside the home. 3:59 sue: it sounded like someone was being beat up or harmed in some way. just a blood-curdling scream. metro got its first call for service in september, 2015 for burglary and vandalism. in april neighbors reported gunshots and vehicles speeding from neighborhood. police have been here seven times in the last seven investigating fraud involving nv energy, and looking for suspicious vehicles and people. police say whenever someone was home, they refused to answer the door. 11:46 darcy stand-up: some squatter homes are used as drug houses, some are turned into chop shops, but this one was a porn palace! check out what was inside! contact 13 obtained photos showing the home appeared to be an amateur pornography studio--maybe even a brothel. there were whips, thigh cuffs and boxes of stilettos.

curtained four-post bed, stripper pole and some mirrors. locks were busted out of doors, there was a drawer of drug paraphernalia, and boxes labeled with girls' names. 8:00 jeremy aguero/applied analysis: your story is an awful one and i wish it was isolated, but it's not at all. jeremy aguero with applied analysis has been examining the valley's squatter problem... 1:31 jeremy: which has become a pretty significant challenge for us in southern nevada. 15:08 darcy stand-up (will need to b- rl may be partly to blame for our squatter problem because of something called "shadow inventory." homes that are bank-controlled but maybe were left in a long-gone owners' name or simply languishing in limbo because the bank has failed to foreclose, making the homes easy prey for squatters. 4:23 jeremy: sometimes when you see homes not being transferred in interest, whether it's for a bank or another purpose, it's because folks don't want to have to bear the property taxes or don't want to have to maintain that particular property. sometimes it's just easier to leave it in limbo.

exception than it used to be, but homes that get lost in the shuffle are particularly problematic. this home in my neighborhood went into default in 2005, but gmac didn't take action to foreclose until this september--after contact 13 got involved. 3:00 darcy: we're all dealing with it. this is our home and our neighborhood. but to them, it's a bottom line of a piece of paper? sue: absolutely. yes. it's all about the money. there are 1,390 bank-owned homes in southern nevada and as you can see on this map, they're everywhere. fannie mae o other bank. 7:46 jeremy: whether it's a high end neighborhood or a low-end neighborhood, no one wants to be living next to someone that doesn't care at all about the property that they're occupying and that in and of itself is the biggest problem that we have. darcy tag: state laws passed in reaction to the recession made it much harder for banks to foreclose, leaving a greater share of homes floating along. now legislators are looking at more new laws to combat the unforeseen consequence of squatting.

all-new stories for 13 action news live at 3-30... including the officer in the facebook live shooting that sparked controversy across america... faces criminal charges why authorities say it could have been racially motivated..... also ahead... a gas explosion kills one person... now authorities are trying

community plus... police find a body... they believe to be a missing man from connecticut. and new information about why prosecutors pressed criminal chrg police officer for the shooting death of a black man. we begin... with a first alaert look at our local weather. bryan...

nye county (including pahrump). also for central mojave county (including kingman).> new information on that deadly police shooting in minnesota - that philando castile shot by an officer - his girlfriend livestreaming the encounter on facebook. now that officer is charged with manslaughter and some say the evidence points to racial bias. a-b-c's steve osunsami has more.