LAS VEGAS -- The father of a man shot and killed by Metro Police early Saturday morning says he will seek legal action against the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.  

Police responded to a call around 2 a.m. at an apartment complex Boulder Highway and Flamingo Road after receiving a call from parents who said their son was suicidal.

When officers arrived, the suspect was armed with several weapons and began firing at officers, police said. Officers returned gunfire hitting the man who was taken to Sunrise Hospital where he was pronounced dead.

LAS VEGAS -- There's a group of students at Mendoza Elementary School who head to class before the bell rings and stay until 5:30 in the evening. It's all part of an optional program called the BRICK Academy or Building Responsible Independent Compassionate Kids.

The students spend as many as 10 hours a day at school. Most of them are from low-income families.

Teacher Justin Brecht created the program. He says the idea is to get the kids on the path to a much brighter future.

"The program is meant to serve under served children and  produce first-generation college graduates. We do this through extended day college prep program that has high expectations, rigorous curriculum, character development is a big part of it, to try and break through some of the obstacles these kids will face in their lives, especially as they go into middle school and high school and hopefully college,"

LAS VEGAS -- Education Secretary Arne Duncan visited Las Vegas Wednesday, looking at several successful schools in the Clark County School District.

Secretary Duncan said Nevada can do better when it comes to investing in public education for kindergarten through 12th grade.

He made those comments during a roundtable discussion with local principals and CCSD Superintendent Pat Skorkowsky at Bracken Elementary School.

Duncan made it clear he wants to see more Nevada students succeeding in more schools like Bracken Elementary, which is a five-star blue-ribbon campus.

However, at the roundtable, principals from much lower performing schools were there to make their voices heard, including Tim Adams, the principal of Martinez Elementary School, which at one time was a one-star school.

"Resources are important. Teachers are important, materials," Adams said. "If there is no funding available, it is more difficult."