The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department told ABC affiliate KTNV that the victims were "unhoused." Police told KTNV that the victims were shot by the same person who is still at large. This is a developing story.

Five homeless people were shot in Las Vegas, two of them fatally, and police say they are searching for a lone suspect

: The following is from Las Vegas Metro Police Undersheriff Andrew Walsh. On Thursday, Nov. 30, at approximately 3:23 a.m., two Nevada State Police Troopers were making contact with a motorist who appeared to be sleeping behind the wheel and was pulled over to the side of the road in the area of Interstate-15 and D Street.

Two Nevada Highway Patrol officers are dead and a suspect is in custody after a hit-and-run along Interstate 15 in the early hours of Thursday morning.

Five people were shot Friday, at least one of them fatally, in a "homeless encampment" in Las Vegas, authorities said.