LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A 57-year-old Arizona man is in custody, dealing with a cost of second-degree homicide after a lethal capturing on Monday.
Richard Stephen Hansen of White Hills, Arizona, was arrested within the capturing dying of one other man who lived on the identical property, Christopher Gene Jetton, 52, in keeping with info from the Mohave County Sheriff’s Workplace (MCSO).
MCSO deputies responded to a report of a capturing simply earlier than 3 p.m. on Monday and located Jetton inside a trailer with a gunshot wound to the chest. Medical responders who arrived in a helicopter had been too late to avoid wasting Jetton, and he was pronounced lifeless on the scene, in keeping with the information launch.
The Arizona Division of Public Security and the Nationwide Park Service additionally responded to the scene, described as a distant property about 12 miles north of White Hills. The realm is about 75 miles southeast of Las Vegas through U.S. 93.
Investigators mentioned Hansen and Jetton lived on the property with one other particular person for the previous 5 years. An argument escalated and Jetton punched Hansen, police mentioned. Hansen retrieved a handgun from his trailer.
The argument was apparently associated to an unidentified one that had been on the property, in keeping with investigators. Jetton believed the particular person was attempting to steal from them.
Hansen stays in custody on the Mohave County Grownup Detention Facility in Kingman. The investigation is continuous.
