LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Arizona police arrested a Las Vegas father two years after officers arrested his son for allegedly stabbing and killing a person throughout a battle that court docket paperwork present the daddy began.
Police in Holbrook, Arizona, took Samuel Conway, 39, into custody on April 18, practically two years after his son, Wyatt Conway, 20, was charged with open homicide with using a lethal weapon and conspiracy to commit homicide, based on a launch.
Samuel was awaiting extradition to Las Vegas as of Monday, April 21.
The discharge didn’t say what fees Samuel faces within the case, however court docket information present a warrant in his title for a similar fees his son is dealing with.
On June 30, 2023, at round 10 p.m., officers with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Division responded to the intersection of Churchill Avenue and South Decatur Boulevard after stories of a stabbing.
Responding medical personnel discovered a person, recognized as 35-year-old Joshua Brooke, who had been stabbed. They took him to an area hospital, the place he was pronounced useless.
In line with an arrest report, a witness informed police that whereas she was sitting with Brooke and an unnamed pal on a wall close to the intersection, a person was looking at her as he walked by.
The witness informed police that she was uncomfortable together with his staring and informed him to “take a picture, it will last longer.” In line with the report, that made the person offended and he informed her, “You’re not even good looking,” earlier than leaving.
The report said that the witness mentioned ten to fifteen minutes handed earlier than a white Ford Explorer pulled as much as the intersection. One other witness, the unnamed pal, informed police that she seen that Brooke was bleeding and one of many males was holding a knife, which he had folded up.
The witness was later proven an image of the suspect, recognized as Wyatt, who was 18 on the time, and informed police that he was the person with the knife.
The report said that three folks had been taken into custody as a result of they matched the outline of the lads within the Ford Explorer.
Considered one of them informed police that Wyatt’s father, Samuel, had come residence “screaming at everyone.” He mentioned that Samuel informed them to “get into the car” as a result of “someone had just threatened him.”
One other suspect informed police that the group of them acquired into the Ford Explorer and drove to the intersection to “confront the people that Samuel just had words with.” He informed police that Brooke pulled out a “pen-style knife” after the battle began and tried to stab him, the report said.
The suspect informed police that Conway pushed Brooke off of him and was stabbed within the again and shoulder space. The report said that the suspect mentioned Conway then pulled out a knife and stabbed Brooke 4 occasions.
He informed police all of them acquired again within the automobile and drove residence, the report said.
In line with the report, Wyatt informed police that his dad got here residence upset and informed them to get into the automobile, that “something bad is about to happen.”
He later admitted to detectives that he did stab Brooke “because he was scared,” and he had simply been stabbed. In line with the report, he picked up a knife on the bottom and used it to stab Brooke 3 times, earlier than throwing the knife out of the automobile window as they drove away.
Samuel initially confronted fees for breaking the window of a police automobile.
Courtroom information present Wyatt’s jury trial was scheduled to start on Aug. 25.
