LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Prosecutors intend to hunt the dying penalty in opposition to the person accused of killing his spouse and stepson ought to a jury convict him, paperwork mentioned.
Karl Groschen, 41, is accused of killing his spouse, Anastasiya Akutsina, 44; and his stepson, Sergei “Evan” Scroggins, 20, on Oct. 11 inside a Henderson dwelling close to Heat Springs Street and Stephanie Avenue. A grand jury later indicted Groschen on expenses of open homicide and little one abuse, information mentioned.
In video the 8 Information Now Investigators first obtained, Groschen instructed an officer to arrest him as police responded to his dwelling after the shootings.
“There’s two dead bodies, you’ve got to arrest me,” Groschen mentioned within the video. “I thought they were trying to kill me.”
Groschen allegedly fired a handgun 9 instances inside the house, killing Akutsina and Scroggins, paperwork mentioned.
“As such, he knowingly created a great risk of death to more than one person by means of a weapon, device or course of action which would normally be hazardous to the lives of more than one person,” prosecutors mentioned in paperwork filed Thursday. “He killed the two victims present in the residence as well as endangered the lives of the more than one person.”
Prosecutors additionally cite “aggravating circumstances,” which they mentioned may qualify for dying.
Groschen didn’t enter a plea throughout his arraignment final month. Final month, his legal professional requested a choose to submit him to a competency analysis. If the choose determines an individual is incompetent based mostly on medical doctors’ rulings, an individual may spend months to years in a state facility reaching competency. A defendant’s felony case is actually paused throughout that course of.
Groschen’s case confirmed a listening to concerning his competency was scheduled for January.
The state has not put an individual to dying since 2006.
