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Suspect competent to stand trial in roommate’s death

By Matt Pordum (contact)

Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2004 | 8:38 a.m.

A man who allegedly killed his roommate and placed his body in a freezer was found competent Monday to stand trial.

A preliminary hearing is scheduled Sept. 8 for 64-year-old Lawrence Pruett before Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Douglas Smith.

Smith on July 12 ordered a psychological evaluation of Pruett, who is charged with murder for the July 3 shooting of his "part-time roommate," 45-year-old Bradley Michael Millisor.

Pruett said he shot Millisor with a shotgun after Millisor tried to attack him with a knife, according to the police arrest report.

Millisor was found dead inside a freezer in front of Pruett's double-wide mobile home near Lake Mead and Nellis boulevards on July 8.

Pruett told police he feared for his life and shot Millisor, then placed his body in the freezer. He paid friends to bury the body in the desert, but they dumped the freezer with the body inside in Pruett's driveway a few days later, according to the arrest report.

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