LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A person accused of stabbing and killing an unidentified man in a combat tried to choke a Las Vegas police officer weeks earlier, based on police paperwork.
On Tuesday, Nov. 19, 11:45 a.m., officers with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Division responded to the world of East Lake Mead and North Hollywood boulevards after a person known as 911 a few stabbing.
Medical personnel took the sufferer to a hospital the place hospital employees pronounced him lifeless.
The sufferer had stab wounds in the course of his chest, on his left flank, and on the left aspect of his again, based on an arrest report. Police have been unable to establish the sufferer and the Clark County Coroner’s Workplace documented him as “John E Lake Mead Doe.”
The person who discovered the sufferer was collaborating in coaching on the LVMPD Vary on East Carey Avenue when his class broke for lunch. Whereas on his solution to get meals, he noticed two males preventing close to the bus cease on East Lake Mead Boulevard west of Radwick Drive, the report acknowledged.
He instructed police the sufferer was “swaying” and “not completely engaged in the fight” and stated he noticed the sufferer fall off the sidewalk onto the asphalt and didn’t get again up. The person reporting stated the suspect then “made a punching motion downward” to the sufferer’s left aspect earlier than strolling away, based on the report.
The person reporting then rotated to assist render support to the sufferer. Two off-duty officers with an Arizona sheriff’s workplace attending the identical class as the person reporting additionally stopped to assist render support to the sufferer, although they didn’t see the combat resulting in the stabbing, the report acknowledged.
Surveillance video of a close-by enterprise confirmed the suspect hiding a folding knife in rocks in a dust lot earlier than he went to a close-by condo constructing. Police who later collected the knife noticed obvious blood on it, based on the report.
Later within the day, police acquired a name from a citizen who stated the suspect could possibly be Jose Escamilla, 33, who lived in an condo close by. Surveillance video of Escamilla’s condo constructing confirmed him leaving the condo at round 10:30 a.m. carrying the identical clothes the suspect was carrying, the report acknowledged.
A data examine for Escamilla confirmed a number of violent prior arrests relationship again to 2005, together with an October incident the place Escamilla allegedly tried to choke a police officer.
On Nov. 20, officers took Escamilla into custody. Detectives tried to talk to him, however Escamilla “appeared to be under the influence and/or mentally ill,” the report acknowledged.
Police booked Escamilla into the Clark County Detention Middle on a cost of open homicide, the place he’s held with out bail. His subsequent court docket look was scheduled for Dec. 12.
