LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A neighborly relationship that began pleasant turned lethal in an residence advanced close to the Las Vegas Strip.
Alexander Ayres, 47, informed police he believed his neighbor was attempting to poison him with medicine and may be chargeable for parasites he believed to be in his hair and fingernails, in response to the arrest report.
Ayres is accused of taking pictures Ray “James” Davis Jr., who was standing outdoors his residence round 9 p.m. on Saturday, March 29. The taking pictures occurred at 234 W. Chicago Avenue, the place each males lived as neighbors in an residence advanced close to Industrial Highway and Wyoming Avenue.
Man accused of taking pictures, killing neighbor close to Las Vegas Strip
Davis, both 65 or 66, was transported to College Medical Middle, the place he was pronounced useless a couple of hours later. When police arrived at Ayres’ residence, he informed officers he was chargeable for the taking pictures and was taken into custody, the report said.
Ayres overtly admitted to police that he used alcohol and medicines, together with methamphetamine, every day, even on the day of the taking pictures, as a result of it gave him extra mobility, in response to the report. Investigators famous Ayres’ timeline of occasions was “sporadic” and he tended to ramble in “unintelligible tangents.”
Whereas Ayres mentioned the 2 have been pleasant, he mentioned he had not too long ago begun to really feel otherwise about Davis and started plotting how he would kill him the day earlier than the taking pictures, court docket paperwork mentioned.
Davis was shot a number of instances via the locked display screen door of Ayres’ residence. Ayres can be accused of opening the door and taking pictures him some extra.
Court docket paperwork said Ayres by no means denied the taking pictures and mentioned he would go to jail with no regrets. He mentioned he would solely really feel remorseful if somebody might persuade him he was “crazy.”
Ayres is at the moment being held within the Clark County Detention Middle and has two prior convictions for illegally possessing a gun as a result of he’s a felon, court docket data confirmed.
Ayres informed police he bought the stolen gun a couple of years earlier and filed off the serial quantity.
Ayres is going through expenses of homicide, possessing a gun whereas being a prohibited particular person, and eradicating the serial quantity on a gun. He has a 72-hour court docket listening to scheduled for April 2.
