Las Vegas Woman Accused of Hitting Officer, Paramedic With Van Faces Multiple Charges

A Las Vegas woman is facing several serious charges after police said she struck both a Metropolitan Police Department officer and a paramedic with her van during an encounter that began with a welfare-type call involving a possibly intoxicated driver.

According to documents obtained by 8 News Now, the incident began on Wednesday, April 22, at about 8 p.m. when an officer with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department responded to the 1900 block of North Decatur Boulevard, near Lake Mead Boulevard, after a report of a “possible intoxicated female” asleep inside a van.

By the time the officer arrived, medical personnel were already at the scene and had attempted to make contact with the woman inside the vehicle. Police later identified her as Katrina Reilly, 29. According to the arrest report, Reilly was uncooperative during those initial efforts.

An EMT at the scene told the officer that Reilly appeared to have “large pupils and was possibly intoxicated,” according to the report. That observation became part of the early account officers documented as they tried to figure out what kind of condition Reilly was in and whether she needed medical assistance.

As the officer and EMT spoke, the situation escalated quickly. Police said Reilly turned on the van while they were still at the scene. The officer then approached the driver’s side window and asked Reilly to roll it down, but she refused, according to the report.

At that point, the officer tried to physically remove Reilly from the van, and a struggle followed. During that struggle, police said Reilly kicked the officer in the face, causing the officer’s glasses to fall to the ground.

Investigators said the confrontation continued as Reilly drove the van forward while the officer was still struggling with her. The EMT then tried to help by holding the driver’s door open, according to the report. What followed, police said, turned the encounter into a dangerous chain of events involving multiple first responders and emergency vehicles.

Police said Reilly put the van in reverse and drove backward, causing the open door to hit the EMT and throw him to the ground. The impact dislocated the EMT’s right shoulder, according to the arrest report. Authorities said the van then continued in reverse, hit the officer’s patrol vehicle, and knocked the officer to the ground.

The report says the van then moved forward again and hit the ambulance before Reilly fled the scene. In a matter of moments, police said, the encounter had left both a police officer and a paramedic injured while also damaging emergency vehicles that had responded to the call.

Authorities did not say in the report excerpt whether Reilly remained in the area immediately after leaving or where she went afterward. What is clear from the account is that the scene shifted from a response to a possibly impaired driver into an active criminal investigation involving injured public safety personnel.

The case did not end that night. At around 10 a.m. the following day, April 23, Metro officers found Reilly again — this time asleep inside the van at a different location. Police said officers had been dispatched there on a report of a “suspicious vehicle.”

When officers made contact with her the second time, they took Reilly into custody without incident. Still, the arrest report said it “took a while” for her to understand that the people confronting her were police officers.

During a search of the van, officers said they found four small clear baggies containing “white powder residue.” That discovery added another significant detail to the investigation and appeared to reinforce officers’ earlier concerns about possible impairment.

According to the report, Reilly later spoke with police and said the baggies had previously contained cocaine and ketamine. She also told investigators that she had been using drugs “on and off for some time now,” the documents stated.

Police said Reilly told them she remembered seeing medical personnel during the first encounter but refused medical attention because she believed she had rights and did not need to get out of her vehicle. She also told investigators she was afraid and said she did not cooperate with police in either encounter because she had “different rights.” According to the report, she did not clarify what she meant by that statement.

The account provided in the documents lays out a sequence in which officers and medical personnel were first trying to assess Reilly’s condition and then were forced into a physical confrontation after she allegedly refused commands and used the van while responders were in close proximity. The report presents the van itself as the instrument through which multiple injuries and collisions occurred.

Authorities ultimately booked Reilly on several charges, including battery on a protected person, resisting a public officer with a deadly weapon not a firearm, and battery with the use of a deadly weapon resulting in bodily harm.

Those charges reflect the seriousness of the allegations, particularly because both a police officer and a paramedic were injured while responding to what first appeared to be a call involving a person in distress or possible intoxication. Cases involving emergency responders often draw heightened attention because of the risks they face while trying to stabilize uncertain situations in public.

The report does not indicate that police recovered quantities of narcotics from the van, only that officers found baggies containing what was described as white powder residue. It also does not say whether Reilly was formally charged with any drug-related offenses in connection with that discovery. Instead, the central allegations outlined in the report focus on the violent encounter, the use of the van, and the injuries suffered by first responders.

The location of the initial incident — the 1900 block of North Decatur Boulevard near Lake Mead Boulevard — is a busy Las Vegas corridor where emergency calls can quickly draw attention from passing traffic and nearby businesses. While the report does not describe the larger scene in detail, the alleged collision with both a patrol vehicle and an ambulance underscores how chaotic the encounter became once Reilly began moving the van.

For investigators, the case appears to have been built around the observations of the officer and EMT, the physical injuries described in the report, the damage caused during the incident, the later recovery of the van, and Reilly’s own statements to police after her arrest.

Reilly was held at the Clark County Detention Center on $35,000 bail. The case now moves forward through the court process, where prosecutors are expected to pursue the charges tied to the alleged assault on the officer and paramedic and the injuries that followed.

For now, the allegations center on a call that began with a sleeping driver and quickly escalated into a violent confrontation involving police, medical responders and a van that investigators say became a weapon during the struggle. The documents obtained by 8 News Now provide a detailed look at how officers say the encounter unfolded and why the charges against Reilly are so serious.