LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A person accused of killing a girl inside a Las Vegas Strip lodge room allegedly lured a person to the desert weeks earlier, killing him after providing him a job to wash up trash.
Las Vegas Metro police arrested Dandre Owens, 30, final February following the capturing demise of 29-year-old Brittani Bailey contained in the MGM Grand. Metro police re-booked Owens on Tuesday on expenses of open homicide and kidnapping, the 8 Information Now Investigators first reported. Police suspect Owens lured Edward Kukish to a desolate desert space, killing him “execution style,” paperwork mentioned.
On Aug. 9, 2024, an individual known as police a couple of decomposing physique positioned in a desert space on Pabco Street close to Lake Mead Boulevard, paperwork mentioned. The physique confirmed no indicators of trauma however was separated into items.
The Clark County coroner’s workplace later decided the person, recognized as Kukish, suffered two gunshot wounds to his head, paperwork mentioned. Police mentioned Kukish disappeared in January 2024.
Metro’s crime lab later decided cartridge circumstances discovered close to Kukish’s physique matched a gun already in proof for Bailey’s homicide, paperwork mentioned.
When reviewing Owens’ telephone, police mentioned he solicited a job on Craigslist in mid-January 2024 a couple of “desert trash pick up,” paperwork mentioned. Investigators later positioned textual content messages between Owens and Kukish.
Kukish’s household instructed police he would decide up odd jobs to generate income, paperwork mentioned. In textual content messages with Owens, it seems Owens picked up Kukish and drove to the desert space the place Kukish believed he can be paid to choose up trash.
Final summer time, a grand jury indicted Owens on expenses together with homicide and theft for the February 2024 lethal capturing. A choose scheduled a trial in that case for September.
Video surveillance confirmed Bailey and Owens within the lodge collectively earlier than her demise, paperwork mentioned. Eleven minutes after getting into the room collectively, Owens left alone. Detectives later positioned Bailey’s Social Safety card in Owens’ pockets.
On Wednesday, a choose denied Owens bail in his second homicide case.
