LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A person dealing with an tried homicide cost allegedly instructed the sufferer “the devil wanted him to kill someone” earlier than he tried to stab her, based on police paperwork.
On Aug. 21, shortly earlier than 8 a.m., officers with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Division responded to the 11000 block of Wedgebrook Avenue, close to Las Vegas Boulevard and St. Rose Parkway, after a report of battery with a lethal weapon.
The caller instructed dispatch that she took a knife away from her cousin, later recognized as Dhrexter Encarnacion, 22, as a result of he was “hallucinating about demons,” based on an arrest report.
Arriving officers discovered “large amounts of blood” within the residence, together with “all over” Encarnacion and the caller, the report acknowledged. Police secured the sufferer earlier than detaining Encarnacion.
The sufferer mentioned she lived within the residence with 9 different members of the family, together with Encarnacion, who moved there from the Philippines a number of years in the past. She added that everybody was at work or college aside from her and Encarnacion, in addition to her brother and her uncle, who had been each asleep.
She mentioned Encarnacion started performing “strange” round 5 days in the past, telling her that “two demons were over him while he sleeps,” paperwork mentioned. She added that she noticed him having a full dialog with somebody who wasn’t there and would randomly say issues like “you’re guilty” and “you know what you did.”
The sufferer instructed police she was within the kitchen with Encarnacion, who was pacing forwards and backwards and was “not quite himself.” Encarnacion instructed her, “I have to do it… give me until 8:01,” earlier than he grabbed a knife and pointed it at her, saying, “the Devil wants him to kill someone, and that someone was going to be [the victim],” the report acknowledged.
Encarnacion moved towards the sufferer, and he or she reached for the knife, making an attempt to cease him. She instructed police they fought over the knife till the knife broke, and he or she sustained a number of accidents in the course of the battle, together with a chunk on the hand, paperwork mentioned.
The sufferer mentioned that Encarnacion then “took her to the ground” and began to choke her whereas slamming her head on the ground.
The uncle instructed police he was asleep at residence and woke as much as canines barking. When he went to see what was occurring, he “saw blood everywhere in the kitchen,” based on the report. He mentioned Encarnacion was on prime of the caller and was choking her.
He pulled Encarnacion off the sufferer, however he tried to strangle her once more. One other uncle got here into the home, listening to the commotion, and the 2 males pulled Encarnacion off the sufferer and held him till police arrived.
Encarnacion instructed police he was below the affect of medication and that is why he needed to kill the sufferer, admitting that he tried to stab her “multiple times.” He denied listening to voices or performing out of anger.
He mentioned he regretted his actions, based on the arrest report.
Police booked Encarnacion into the Clark County Detention Heart on fees of tried homicide with a lethal weapon and battery by strangulation. He was held with out bail.
