LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A person accused of killing a lady inside a Las Vegas Strip lodge room allegedly lured a person to the desert weeks earlier, killing him after providing him a job to wash up trash.
Las Vegas Metro police arrested Dandre Owens, 30, final February following the capturing demise of 29-year-old Brittani Bailey contained in the MGM Grand. Metro police re-booked Owens on Tuesday on fees of open homicide and kidnapping, the 8 Information Now Investigators first reported. Police suspect Owens lured Edward Kukish to a desolate desert space, killing him “execution style,” paperwork stated.
On Aug. 9, 2024, an individual referred to as police a few decomposing physique positioned in a desert space on Pabco Highway close to Lake Mead Boulevard, paperwork stated. The physique confirmed no indicators of trauma however was separated into items.
The Clark County coroner’s workplace later decided the person, recognized as Kukish, suffered two gunshot wounds to his head, paperwork stated. Police stated Kukish disappeared in January 2024.
Metro’s crime lab later decided cartridge circumstances discovered close to Kukish’s physique matched a gun already in proof for Bailey’s homicide, paperwork stated.
When reviewing Owens’ cellphone, police stated he solicited a job on Craigslist in mid-January 2024 a few “desert trash pick up,” paperwork stated. Investigators later positioned textual content messages between Owens and Kukish.
Kukish’s household instructed police he would decide up odd jobs to earn cash, paperwork stated. In textual content messages with Owens, it seems Owens picked up Kukish and drove to the desert space the place Kukish believed he could be paid to select up trash.
Final summer time, a grand jury indicted Owens on fees together with homicide and theft for the February 2024 lethal capturing. A decide scheduled a trial in that case for September.
Video surveillance confirmed Bailey and Owens within the lodge collectively earlier than her demise, paperwork stated. Eleven minutes after coming into the room collectively, Owens left alone. Detectives later positioned Bailey’s Social Safety card in Owens’ pockets.
On Wednesday, a decide denied Owens bail in his second homicide case.
