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Vegas fugitive arrested at Los Angeles apartment

LOS ANGELES — A weeklong multistate manhunt for the suspected gunman in a Las Vegas Strip shooting and crash that killed three people ended when he surrendered Thursday in Los Angeles while apparently going about life as usual.

Ammar Harris, 26, a self-described pimp, was jailed pending an extradition hearing Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court.

The arrest of Harris, a convicted felon in South Carolina who showed fists full of money on Internet posts and boasted of a high-rolling lifestyle with prostitutes in Miami and Las Vegas, ended a manhunt that began after a Feb. 21 shooting and spectacular, fiery accident that killed three people and injured five at an intersection home to the Bellagio, Bally’s, Flamingo, and Caesars Palace casino resorts.

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Court documents allege Harris was driving his black Range Rover SUV when he fired at least five shots into a Maserati sports car, killing Kenneth Wayne Cherry Jr., a rapper who called himself Kenny Clutch.

A passenger in the Maserati, identified as Freddy Walters, was wounded in the arm.

Harris and Cherry had argued minutes earlier in the valet area of the Aria resort.

Associated Press