LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Police stated a person allegedly stabbed and killed his father with a kitchen knife after an argument Monday morning.
At round 7:30 a.m., a girl in her 20s known as 911 stating that her brother was stabbing her father, in keeping with Lieutenant Robert Worth.
Officers with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Division responded to the 1900 block of Rexford Drive, close to East St Louis Avenue and South Las Vegas Boulevard.
Officers positioned the brother, a person in his 30s, and took him into custody, Worth stated at a media convention on Monday.
Whereas clearing the residence, officers additionally positioned the daddy, who was mendacity on the bottom, affected by a number of stab wounds. Officers rendered help till medical personnel arrived and pronounced him lifeless. Worth stated the sufferer was in his 50s.
Murder detectives took over the investigation. Worth stated preliminary particulars present the daddy and son had been in “some type of argument” and in some unspecified time in the future, the argument turned bodily.
In the course of the battle, the son grabbed a kitchen knife and started stabbing the daddy, Worth stated.
That is an remoted incident and Worth stated there isn’t any risk to the general public right now.
Police didn’t present names for the suspect or the sufferer. Police additionally didn’t say what prices the suspect might face.