LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Police say they’ve arrested a person who allegedly shot cellphone video of himself capturing three bullets into the storage of his home within the west valley, leaving his girlfriend’s brother mendacity with a bullet in his head, in a pool of blood, with little likelihood of survival.
A report from Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Division says Francis Centeno, 22, confessed to capturing his girlfriend’s brother on March 29 and recording your entire factor. The person lived within the storage of their residence and police say the 2 had an ongoing feud. Police responded to the house on at the very least one prior event – in February – for a “domestic dispute,” the report says.
The sufferer’s mom stated Centeno and her son “have never gotten along,” the report stated.
Centeno and his girlfriend share a 1-year-old daughter and have been courting for 3 years, the report says, including that the toddler was residence on the time of the capturing.
Centeno admitted to capturing three rounds via the wall and reloading the journal after which “stashing the gun in the car located within the garage of the residence,” the report stated.
Police say Centeno was performing unusual and telling household “someone was coming for them,” in response to Metro’s report. The report says his girlfriend got here into her bed room whereas she was sleeping, and after Centeno left the room, she heard “two or three pops.”
The lady informed police Centeno informed her to “go check on her brother,” who sleeps within the storage, in accordance to the report.
“She heard sounds of snoring coming through the garage,” the report stated. “She opened the garage door and found [the victim] laying on the garage floor, just inside the garage door, and bleeding from the head.”
Police say they introduced the person to UMC Trauma the place he was handled for a gunshot wound to his head and “remains on life support with an unknown recovery status.”
Centeno, a two-time convicted felon, informed police he hid the gun, a 9mm, after the capturing as a result of “he knows he is not allowed to possess guns,” the report stated.
Centeno initially informed police that he “heard a group of people outside being loud,” and that the group “started to break into the bedroom through the window,” the report stated. He informed police “he fired three shots at the wall because he was protecting his family,” the report stated.
He then gave the police the passcode to his cellphone so they may see the “group,” however they didn’t discover any kind of disturbance, the report stated.
Centeno stated he bought the the handgun “off the streets a while back,” the report stated.
The report additionally stated Centeno informed them he drank alcohol “and smoked some weed about two hours before the shooting.”
Centeno faces fees of tried homicide with a lethal weapon; three counts of discharging a gun inside a construction/car inside a prohibited space; proudly owning or possessing a gun by a prohibited particular person; battery with using a lethal weapon leading to critical bodily hurt, in response to public report.
Centeno was held with out bail on the Clark County Detention Heart. His preliminary court docket look was scheduled for April 15, court docket data present.
