LV man’s body found in home, beaten to death

Monday, Oct. 14, 1996 | 11:59 a.m.

A 57-year-old Las Vegas man was found dead this morning in his mobile home when his roommate returned home.

The man's roommate, an unidentified woman, came home about 4:10 a.m. to the Meadows Mobile Home Community at 2900 S. Valley View Blvd. near Pennwood Avenue and saw that the front door of the mobile home was open, Metro Police Lt. Larry Spinosa said.

"Earlier in the evening she went out with some friends and when she came home she found the door open," he said.

The woman didn't want to go into the home, so she called the police.

"Officers went into the residence to check to make sure everything was OK and located the victim," he said.

The victim, whose name will not be released until his family is notified, was in a rear bedroom, dead from severe trauma to his back and chest, Spinosa said.

A motive for the homicide was not yet known, he said.

A security guard at the senior mobile home park told police he didn't see anything suspicious, a manager said.

The manager checked the log kept by the guard and no one came in to see the victim, she said. The manager, who asked that her name not be used, said she also checked the log for two months and that "he didn't have many people visit him."

She said the victim bought the mobile home about 18 months ago.

Police have asked anyone with information to notify homicide at 229-3521 or Secret Witness at 385-5555.