LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A Las Vegas man with an intensive legal historical past now faces tried homicide prices for allegedly beating one other man with a tire iron over an incident involving a prostitute, in line with courtroom paperwork.
Wayne Lamon Might Jr., 28, was taken into custody on Nov. 20, practically a month after the alleged beating occurred.
In response to the arrest report, police responded to a name of a severely injured man who had his cellphone taken from him by a girl.
The sufferer advised police he noticed a suspicious-looking van parked at E. Fremont Avenue and Oakey Avenue and he approached the van to take images, inflicting it to go away. He stated he believed it was an individual making an attempt to choose up a prostitute. After the van left, the sufferer stated he observed a girl, later recognized by police as 34-year-old Vanessa Langstaff, a recognized prostitute, and started taking footage of her, in line with the report.
The sufferer stated the lady grabbed his cellphone and each started arguing. Police stated the person suffered a 2 to 3-inch laceration to the again of his head however could not bear in mind the way it occurred.
A passerby captured what occurred on his automobile’s digicam. In response to the report, the video confirmed that the lady (Langstaff) threw a glass bottle on the sufferer and charged him and he struck Langstaff 3 times with a picket stick. Langstaff threw the cellphone on the sufferer earlier than working off.
Roughly 20 minutes later, the video exhibits a person, later recognized as Wayne Might, getting out of a automobile, pulling a tire iron out from underneath his shirt, and placing the sufferer a number of instances. After the sufferer fell to the bottom, Might stomped on his head together with his foot and Langstaff, who was in the identical automobile, acquired out and started hitting him with an object, paperwork acknowledged.
Though the 2 fled the scene, police have been capable of monitor the automobile’s license plate and get Langstaff’s telephone quantity from a prostitution commercial which led to the arrest of each of them.
Court docket paperwork present Might has a historical past of crime courting again to the late Nineties. He’s charged with tried homicide, theft, and violating his probation for a larceny conviction in 2023. He was sentenced to 2 to 5 years however the sentence was suspended so long as he stayed out of hassle. Might is because of seem in courtroom on the probation violation on Dec. 5, 2024.
Throughout a police interview, Langstaff lied and stated the sufferer attacked her first. When police performed the video, she requested for an lawyer. Langstaff has a earlier historical past of prostitution arrests and is now going through tried homicide, theft, and battery prices.
Langstaff and Might each have preliminary hearings scheduled for Dec. 10.
