Home Invader Goes After Homeowner With A Hammer, Vegas Cops Fills Him Full Of Holes

Las Vegas police on Thursday released details and footage after officers fatally shot a robbery suspect armed with a hammer early Tuesday morning.

Police say on Dec. 8 before 1:20 a.m. the suspect entered through a side door to a residence in the 5100 block of Spanish Heights Drive near Tropicana Avenue and Durango Drive. According to police, the suspect confronted two homeowners, 73 and 76 years old, while armed with a hammer and demanded money and car keys, and said that the female resident was "coming with him."

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police officers Malik Grego-Smith and Dustin Xaypanya fired a combined total of six rounds at 40-year-old suspect Nathaniel Sironen, according to LVMPD Assistant Sheriff Brett Zimmerman.

According to Zimmerman, arriving officers from outside the house observed the suspect standing in the kitchen. Police showed body-worn camera footage of officers approaching the front door of the house and motioning to homeowners to open the door.

Footage shows the apparent resident opening the door, and a suspect charging toward the homeowner with the hammer as police entered. The homeowners were uninjured, Zimmerman said.

Police summoned medical assistance shortly after shooting Sironen, who was pronounced dead on scene.