On August 4, LVMPD lost Officer Austin Abdelnabi. Thirty years old. A United States Marine Corps veteran. With the department since 2023. Married to his wife, Sage, for eight years.
This is the ugly one, so I’m going to lay it out straight and keep it respectful.
It started as a 911 call. A woman reported a man in all black, face covered, waving a handgun near a business in the 4500 block of East Tropicana. Metro dispatched Officer Abdelnabi and his partner officer.
Here’s a part that should not get lost. A department drone got there first. It located the suspect on Mountain Vista near the I-11 and tracked him for several minutes before any officer laid eyes on him. The drone even caught him pulling the pistol from his pocket — extended magazine and all — as he walked.
Officer Abdelnabi arrived and activated his lights. Before he could clear his vehicle, the suspect — 21-year-old Angel Lucas Lindsey — charged straight at him and opened fire.
He hit Abdelnabi eight times. One round struck his vest and went into his neck. One hit his arm and traveled into his chest. Two more into the vest. One into his handcuff case. One into his pepper spray. One into the base plate of his firearm. One into his body-worn camera.
Officer Abdelnabi never got a round off.
His partner pulled in behind him, saw the attack, and returned fire — six rounds — striking the suspect in the chest. Lindsey then turned the gun on himself. Both wounds were fatal. Officers dragged Abdelnabi to cover, put a chest seal and a tourniquet on him, and ran a downed-officer rescue. He was pronounced deceased at UMC.
The suspect fired 15 rounds from a CZ P-10 nine-millimeter. He had one in the chamber and ten more in the extended magazine, plus two additional loaded magazines on him — 18 rounds in one, 28 in the other. Forty-six rounds he never got to fire. This was a man who came loaded for a fight and went looking for one.
There is no criticism here. None. A coward ambushed and murdered a police officer who was responding to a call for help. The backup officer did his job under the worst circumstances a cop can face, and the shooting is not in question — the suspect had just gunned down an officer and was still firing.
Officer Austin Abdelnabi. End of Watch, August 4, 2026. He ran toward a call knowing exactly what the job can cost, and it cost him everything. He leaves behind a wife of eight years and a department that will carry this one for a long time.
