LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Metro police are investigating a lethal stabbing close to the Boulevard Mall Tuesday afternoon.
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Division stated the stabbing occurred within the 1400 block of Pawnee Drive, close to Desert Inn Highway and Maryland Parkway, at round midday on April 29.
The individual reporting instructed police an individual was stabbed inside their residence, Murder Lieutenant Robert Value stated at a briefing Tuesday.
Officers arrived and located the suspect, who was detained by one of many residence’s occupants within the driveway. Police took that suspect into custody with out incident.
Contained in the residence, police discovered two folks affected by stab wounds. One individual was taken to a close-by hospital in important, however secure situation.
Medical personnel pronounced the second sufferer useless on the scene.
Value stated two folks in the home have been in a bodily struggle contained in the laundry room. The third individual got here into the laundry room and tried to interrupt up the struggle.
The suspect, a person in his 50s, pulled out a knife and started to stab each victims. A fourth individual got here into the laundry room with a hammer and threatened the suspect, telling him to drop the knife.
The suspect dropped his knife, and the individual stored them detained till police arrived.
“I heard shouting. I came out, and I was like ‘this must be a couple arguing’ or something. I didn’t think much of it,” Eth Gomez, who was staying at a house close by, stated. “I am going again inside, however then I heard sirens. And also you simply see one cop come, two cops, then one ambulance, one other ambulance, an enormous hearth truck, after which they have not stopped since.”
Police additionally ask the general public to keep away from the world as a result of ongoing investigation.
