LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Metro police arrested the person they are saying is chargeable for a lethal stabbing within the east valley earlier within the week.
On Tuesday, Nov. 19 at round 11:45 a.m., officers with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Division responded to the 6800 block of East Lake Mead Boulevard close to North Hollywood Boulevard after a report of a stabbing.
Arriving officers discovered a person who seemed like he had been battered. When officers began eradicating his clothes they observed that he had been stabbed a number of occasions. The person was then taken to a hospital the place employees pronounced him lifeless.
By way of the investigation, detectives decided the sufferer was concerned in a combat with a person who was later recognized as Jose Escamilla, 33. In the course of the combat, Escamilla allegedly took out a knife and stabbed the sufferer earlier than working away from the scene, police mentioned.
On Wednesday, Nov. 20, the Legal Apprehension Workforce positioned and arrested Escamilla. Police then booked him into the Clark County Detention Heart on prices of open homicide and battery with a lethal weapon.
The identification of the sufferer, in addition to the trigger and method of demise, can be launched by theClark County Coroner’s Workplace.
Anybody with any details about this incident is urged to contact the LVMPD Murder Part by telephone at 702-828-3521, or by electronic mail at [email protected]. To stay nameless, contact Crime Stoppers by telephone at 702-385-5555, or on their web site.
