LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A father was arrested for allegedly fatally stabbing his son with a kitchen knife and the weapon was discovered behind an ice cooler exterior their Las Vegas condo, in response to police.
On Dec. 22, at round 1 p.m., the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Division responded to a report of an unresponsive man with obvious stab wounds to the chest close to Pebble Highway and Maryland Parkway.
Medical personnel tried life-saving measures, however Nelson Garcia-Leon was pronounced useless on the scene. Police mentioned upon arrival, officers found a fifteen-inch kitchen knife with seen blood exterior the condo.
Round 4 p.m., the LVMPD reported that detectives carried out an audio interview with Garcia-Leon’s “girlfriend.” She acknowledged she had identified Garcia-Leon for one month and his father, Juan Garcia-Hernandez, 81, for an extended interval.
The girlfriend recounted that earlier than Garcia-Leon’s passing, she had briefly gone to the shop and returned house to begin cooking. Afterward, she took a bathe and was in her room getting dressed whereas listening to music. She mentioned she didn’t hear something uncommon throughout that point, in response to paperwork.
When she exited her room, she noticed Garcia-Leon standing close to the kitchen and performing unusually. She then seen he appeared to have blood coming from his chest. Speeding towards Garcia-Leon to offer assist, she requested Garcia-Hernandez concerning the knife on the bottom. Police mentioned Garcia-Hernandez reportedly instructed her that Garcia-Leon had fallen on the knife and injured himself.
The girlfriend mentioned she tried calling 9-1-1 4 occasions however by chance dialed an additional quantity every time, in response to the arrest report. She finally known as a good friend to contact 9-1-1. She additionally instructed police that Garcia-Hernandez “who was doing nothing to help,” was instructed to get assist, prompting him to depart the condo.
When police interviewed Garcia-Hernandez, he claimed that Garcia-Leon had been ingesting, resulting in an argument. Paperwork mentioned he instructed his son to cease ingesting because of current mind and liver surgical procedures, for which medical doctors had suggested in opposition to alcohol.
Police mentioned in response to Garcia-Hernandez, he known as for assist when Garcia-Leon collapsed. He claimed that he and the girlfriend moved Garcia-Leon to his bed room. Garcia-Hernandez mentioned he left the condo to hunt assist and went to the workplace a number of occasions, nevertheless it was closed, police mentioned.
He then discovered a neighbor which he dropped at the condo, the place they known as the police after seeing Garcia-Leon.
Police mentioned when questioned about an damage to his nostril and the blood on it, Garcia-Hernandez claimed he had hit a tree department three days earlier. Nonetheless, police famous inconsistencies in his account, together with the place he was earlier than Garcia-Leon’s collapse.
When requested if he had by chance stabbed Garcia-Leon, Garcia-Hernandez denied it, police mentioned.
Police mentioned the neighbor who known as 9-1-1 defined that Garcia-Hernandez mentioned “his son fell on a knife and was bleeding,” however that Garcia-Hernandez “didn’t seem stressed at all,” in response to court docket paperwork.
Police decided that there was affordable proof to imagine Garcia-Hernandez had used a knife to hurt Garcia-Leon.
Police mentioned the bloodstained knife was discovered exterior the condo, “hastily hidden behind an ice cooler.” Moreover, police information confirmed that Garcia-Hernandez had been arrested on Might 18, 2024, for assault with a lethal weapon and home violence. Throughout that incident, a number of movies captured him threatening and chasing folks with a kitchen knife, in response to paperwork.
Garcia-Hernandez was arrested and charged with open homicide with using a lethal weapon, court docket information present.
