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 Keith Childress Jr., 23, died from multiple gunshot wounds and his
death was ruled a homicide, the Clark County Coroner's Office said.
Federal agents were tracking the suspect when he was shot in a
residential neighborhood of Las Vegas at about 2 p.m. on Thursday,
the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said in a statement.
Police said Childress was sought for attempted murder and other
violent felonies in Arizona.
A spokesman for the suspect's attorney Brad Reinhart said Childress
had been convicted in December of burglary, armed robbery,
kidnapping, aggravated assault and theft in Maricopa County,
Arizona, but never been accused of attempted murder.
 Las Vegas police did not immediately return a call seeking a
response to the spokesman's comment.
Two police officers, responding to a request for help from the U.S.
Marshals Service, found the suspect outside a house. They repeatedly
ordered him to drop what they thought was a firearm in his right
hand and to stop moving toward them, police said.
"At one point the officers told the suspect not to advance on the
officers. However, the suspect did not listen, concealing his right
arm, which the officers believed was holding a firearm," Captain
Matt McCarthy of Las Vegas police told reporters.
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The officers fired, shooting the man several times and killing him.
"During the course of the investigation, we have learned that the
object was a cellphone," McCarthy said.
(Reporting by Barbara Goldberg in New York; Editing by Helen Popper
and Franklin Paul)
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