Monday, Nov. 8, 2004 | 9:33 a.m.
About 6 a.m. Sunday, a man was found slain in his northwest Las Vegas home, police said.
Brian Edwards said his neighbor's son awakened him Sunday morning, asking if he could use the phone to call the police because "something's happened to my dad."
Edwards, 41, said he let the 16-year-old boy use his phone to call police and overheard him say, "I think someone cut my dad's throat. He's bleeding and he needs help."
Hearing that, Edwards ran across the cul-de-sac off Buffalo Drive near Grand Teton Drive and into his neighbor Jim Stone's house, he said. Edwards said he saw nothing in the living room so he went to the bedroom where he saw Stone lying on his back on the bed, blood all over his face and a little coming out of his ear.
A short statement issued Sunday night by Metro Police said officers were called to the house around 6:30 a.m. There they found a dead man "and circumstances suggested that it was a homicide."
Authorities did not release a cause of death or the dead man's name this morning.
Edwards said Stone was an electrician who was apparently down on his luck. The two weren't friends, but they were friendly and would talk now and then since Stone and his son moved into the neighborhood in June, Edwards said.
Edwards said that e was recently divorced and was always talking about how he planned to get his business, Stone's Classic Electric, going again.
But Edwards said he never knew Stone to have worked since he moved in, and he said Stone "always had lots of people coming and going" from the house.
"You never knew how many people were living there," he said, adding that about a month ago Metro found a wanted man in Stone's home. Edwards did not know what police arrested the man for.
"Yesterday," Edwards said, "there were all kinds of people coming and going from that house ... But when I went in this morning there wasn't a soul around."
Edwards said the numerous visitors seemed to be adults, and he said Stone was probably around 40.
"It's kind of a tragedy, but I think it's just an isolated incident to that house," Edwards said about feeling safe in the neighborhood he's lived in with his wife and two children for 11 years.
"Things just went from bad to worse for that guy," he said.
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