LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A person arrested for murdering a homeless particular person again in April is sustaining his innocence from behind bars.
4 individuals, together with Antonio Telford Jr., are accused of a heinous crime, utilizing a hatchet to allegedly kill Leotha Patton III after which burning his physique.
Telford, Jaymar Quinn, Christopher Henderson, and Zamir Nelson are all charged with open homicide, in line with court docket information.
A felony criticism acknowledged Patton was killed in the midst of the night time on Apr. 13. His physique was found within the morning alongside railroad tracks on the 1500 block of A Avenue, close to Owens Avenue and I-15, after somebody known as 911.
It took till June 4 for the Las Vegas Metro Police Division to arrest somebody within the homicide. It was Telford.
“I don’t know what’s being said and whatnot, but I’m trying to fight this as best I can,” Telford mentioned from the Clark County Detention Heart, the place he is being held with out bail.
In response to a felony criticism, “Antonio produced what they believed was a bat, likely from his tent, and began to strike Leotha on his head while he was asleep atop a mattress.”
“I had one encounter with him and that was only over a cigarette,” Telford mentioned from CCDC.
All of the individuals charged within the homicide look like homeless, together with Patton.
Patton’s physique was discovered burned alongside the railroad tracks on the 1500 block of A Avenue. Surveillance video performed a key position in police arresting the 4 people.
A felony criticism acknowledged when questioned by police, “Antonio identified himself as one of the males in the video walking west on Owens just prior to the murder occurring.”
In a jailhouse interview with 8 Information Now reporter Joshua Peguero, Telford denied being close to the homicide scene. He mentioned he was truly in rehab that night time.
“There is video surveillance that [detectives] have of you, and apparently they have all four of you walking towards the train tracks. Do you know what they’re talking about there?” Peguero requested.
Telford answered, “They may have me walking towards the direction, but it doesn’t mean I went up to the tracks.”
“But you told me you were in rehab. There’s video surveillance saying you were actually there,” Peguero requested once more.
“Right, no,” Telford mentioned.
Metro mentioned Quinn, Henderson, and Nelson have been additionally captured on video the night time of the homicide.
In response to police, all 4 had “assigned roles” within the crime, and “this premeditated conspiracy resulted in Leotha being struck in the head approximately 17 times, using what was believed to be a hatchet, and later being burned…”
All 4 males are additionally going through conspiracy to commit homicide costs and stay on the Clark County Detention Heart with out bail.
