LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A person arrested final yr for allegedly killing a girl inside a Las Vegas Strip resort room faces a brand new homicide cost linked to a second slaying, the 8 Information Now Investigators have realized.
Metro police arrested Dandre Owens, 30, final February following the capturing demise of 29-year-old Brittani Bailey contained in the MGM Grand.
Owens faces a second homicide cost for the demise of a person whose stays police discovered final summer season, the 8 Information Now Investigators have realized.
In August, officers discovered the person’s physique close to Lake Mead Boulevard and Pabco Highway, paperwork mentioned. The person was additionally the sufferer of a capturing.
Owens was already in custody on the time of the August 2024 discovery. Police mentioned the stays had been in an “superior state of decomposition.” It was not instantly clear Wednesday when detectives consider the person died.
Final summer season, a grand jury indicted Owens on costs together with homicide and theft for the February 2024 lethal capturing. A decide scheduled a trial in that case for September.
Owens was scheduled to make his first courtroom look on the brand new homicide cost on Wednesday. On account of his earlier homicide cost, a decide will seemingly deny bail.
LVMPD asks anybody with data on both case to contact the LVMPD Murder Part at 702-828-3521 or through e mail at [email protected]. Moreover, these wishing to stay nameless can contact Crime Stoppers at 702-385-5555 or through the group’s web site.
