LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A decide set bail Friday at $263,000 for the person accused of taking pictures and killing a canine within the east Las Vegas valley.
Kevin Hoskins, 34, faces animal abuse and gun-related costs for the taking pictures on April 23, data stated. The taking pictures occurred within the 6000 block of Halehaven Drive, close to East Bonanza Street and North Sloan Lane, police stated.
Officers discovered a person, later recognized as Hoskins, standing on the street. Police stated the canine was useless from obvious gunshot wounds inside a kennel inside the home.
By investigation, detectives discovered that Hoskins was “upset” with the canine and made threats that he was going to kill it.
In 2017, Hoskins confronted a cost of homicide with a lethal weapon in North Las Vegas, data stated. Hoskins advised police he shot a person in self-defense as that man tried to get into his condo.
A number of months after Hoskins’ arrest, prosecutors dropped the case over the self-defense declare, paperwork stated.
In 2014, Hoskins confronted a cost of aiming a gun at one other individual, data stated. A decide later lowered the cost to disorderly conduct and ordered Hoskins to finish impulse management counseling. Hoskins accomplished the counseling, and a decide closed the case, data stated.
Particular particulars about Wednesday’s canine killing weren’t out there but as of Friday. 8 Information Now was awaiting a public data request for extra info.
Hoskins was due in courtroom on April 29 when a decide may readdress his bail.