LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The person accused of strangling a lady inside a Las Vegas resort room, resulting in her dying, won’t face the dying penalty ought to a jury convict him.
Jason Kendall, 36, allegedly confessed to choking Larissa Garcia, 30, contained in the Palms On line casino Resort on June 12, the 8 Information Now Investigators first reported. Garcia was a single mom, a daughter, a granddaughter and pal to many, pals stated.
Kendall turned himself in to police on June 28, the 8 Information Now Investigators first reported. He faces prices of open homicide, sexual assault and battery by strangulation to commit sexual assault, paperwork stated.
In court docket Thursday, Kendall pleaded not responsible and waived his proper to a speedy trial. His look Thursday marked the primary time he appeared in court docket in months. After he refused to seem for an arraignment twice, Clark County District Courtroom Choose Tierra Jones ordered the jail to move him to court docket “by any means necessary.”
Previous to the listening to, a dying evaluation committee declined to impose the dying penalty ought to a jury convict him, prosecutors stated.
Kendall’s legal proceedings have been beforehand delayed as one other decide ordered him to bear a competency analysis. After a number of months at a state hospital, that decide discovered Kendall competent to face trial.
Kendall “confessed to a strangulation and sexual assault,” police stated, including Kendall advised them he paid Garcia to have intercourse. Video surveillance from the Palms reveals Kendall assembly Garcia within the foyer round 4 p.m., paperwork stated. About an hour later, video reveals Kendall leaving the room and the resort alone with no different individual coming to the room or leaving till safety arrived.
An nameless individual, who police later recognized as Kendall, referred to as resort safety to report Garcia overdosing within the room, paperwork stated. Suspecting an overdose, Metro police didn’t reply however paramedics introduced Garcia to Spring Valley Hospital. Garcia additionally texted an individual she was assembly a person named “J” on the resort, paperwork stated.
Police paperwork point out Kendall, who sources stated is a U.S. Military veteran, referred to as safety anonymously and reported the pretend overdose.
