Mental status a question in Strip sidewalk gun case

Wed, Feb 3, 2016 (10:37 a.m.)

Kahleal Black

Kahleal Black

Las Vegas Strip Shooting

Metro Police officers block Las Vegas Boulevard South at Flamingo Road at the scene of an officer-involved shooting on Friday, Jan. 22, 2016. The boulevard was closed between Flamingo and the Paris resort as officers investigated. Launch slideshow »

A judge in Las Vegas will consider the fitness for trial of a 20-year-old man accused of brandishing an unloaded handgun and feigning shots at traffic and tourists on the Las Vegas Strip.

A competency hearing is set Feb. 19 in state court for Kahleal Black.

Deputy Public Defender Christy Craig said Wednesday she's seeking a mental health evaluation because Black showed clear signs of mental illness at a court appearance a week ago.

Black is jailed on $2 million bail pending arraignment on multiple felony charges including assault with a deadly weapon, weapon possession and resisting a police officer.

Two bystanders escaped serious injury when they were grazed by a police officer's gunfire during a musical fountain show Jan. 22 in front of the Bellagio resort.

Black wasn't wounded.

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