LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Video the 8 Information Now Investigators obtained Wednesday reveals a Las Vegas police officer discovering a girl’s physique in a freezer, resulting in her ex-roommate’s arrest.
A Clark County grand jury indicted Daniel Roush, 37, on homicide and different expenses within the loss of life of Monique Gilbertson, the 8 Information Now Investigators first reported Friday. Las Vegas Metro police arrested Roush on Nov. 6. A lady police recognized as Roush’s spouse, Gina Lopez, faces drug expenses in reference to the occasion.
Gilbertson met Roush, who identifies as Jazzlynn Roush, at a retailer and invited him to dwell together with her, police stated after his arrest. Round Oct. 22, Gilbertson kicked Roush out of the home and adjusted the locks.
On Nov. 6, law enforcement officials performed a welfare verify at Gilbertson’s residence within the 5500 block of Tres Piedras Highway, close to Nellis Boulevard and Vegas Valley Drive. The one that referred to as police stated they have been anxious as they’d not heard from Gilbertson for 2 weeks.
A Clark County grand jury indicted Daniel Roush, 37, on homicide and different expenses within the loss of life of Monique Gilbertson. (KLAS)
Physique digital camera video from one officer who responded to the welfare verify reveals police arriving to the house with a locksmith to achieve entry. Roush then enters the door, saying he has “rights” to the property.
“She’s not here right now,” Roush repeatedly tells the officers. “Monique’s not here right now.”
After quarter-hour, Roush lets police into the home. Police search the house, discovering a locked freezer in a utility room. The freezer was coated with clothes, instantly drawing the officers’ consideration.
The locksmith who helped the officer try and entry the house earlier than Roush answered the door after which unlocks the freezer. An officer then removes a tarp contained in the freezer, revealing Gilbertson’s physique, the video reveals.
A photograph from inside the house, exhibiting drug residue, in keeping with prosecutors. (KLAS)
“There’s a person in here, go get him in handcuffs,” the officer says.
Gilbertson was “folded up” within the freezer and appeared to have been “frozen for some time,” Clark County Deputy District Legal professional James stated. Investigators suspect Gilbertson met Roush in September and supplied him a short lived place to dwell.
Messages from Gilbertson to Roush point out Gilbertson wished Roush to depart: “Good luck to you. I just can’t live with anybody, I’m so sorry,” one stated, in keeping with grand jury transcripts. “I helped you for way longer than I thought I would so just think of it as a gift. So, you have to find another person.”
Gilbertson had 400 nanograms of fentanyl per millimeter in her system on the time of her loss of life – 200 occasions the quantity that might kill an individual, Puccinelli stated. Investigators suspect she died round Oct. 22.
Roush initially confronted second-degree homicide expenses in Las Vegas Justice Courtroom. The indictment means the case will now bypass justice court docket and transfer to district court docket. Lopez is a co-defendant within the legal case however not does face a homicide cost.
