3 bodies found in Las Vegas apartment, triple homicide suspect arrested
The suspect also allegedly stabbed a 50-year-old NV maintenance man in the head
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Three people were found dead in a west Las Vegas apartment Tuesday and a suspect has been arrested in an apparent triple homicide, authorities said.
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police said officers were called to the scene around 9 a.m. Tuesday and found a 50-year-old maintenance man bleeding from non-life-threatening stab wounds to his head.
The man told police that the suspect attacked him in the courtyard of the apartment complex behind the leasing office.
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Officer arrested the man and said he was carrying a sledgehammer-like weapon.
Police said a possible motive for the killings was unclear, but two of the victims lived in the apartment and may have known the suspect, who is in his 30s.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}A suspect was arrested after a woman in her 80s and two men in their 40s were found dead in a Las Vegas apartment.
The complex’s leasing office had asked two maintenance workers to do a welfare check on the apartment for an unknown reason, according to authorities.
The workers entered the apartment with their key and the suspect allegedly attacked them.
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{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}One worker got away and called 911 and the other maintenance worker is believed to have been killed in the apartment, where the bodies of a woman in her 80s and two men in their 40s were found.
The Clark County Coroner’s Office will identify the victims after relatives are notified.