Man may be charged with father’s killing

Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2005 | 10:16 a.m.

Doctors at the state's mental facility in Sparks have deemed a 48-year-old man competent to stand trial in the slashing death of his elderly father.

Charles Greco is expected to be transferred from Lake's Crossing to Clark County and be remanded into custody so that he can be brought before District Judge Donald Mosley. Mosley is expected to confirm the findings of competency.

That will lead to Greco being charged in Las Vegas Justice Court with murder of a victim over 65. He allegedly killed 84-year-old Albert Greco.

Charles Greco had been receiving treatment for schizophrenia for 26 years, but at the time of the killing he had stopped taking his medication, according to a police report.

According to Metro Police paperwork obtained by the Sun, the department's 911 dispatch center received a call about 10:45 p.m. on Jan. 20, 2004, from someone at 205 Delamar St. The phone line was open and the call-taker said she could hear someone moving around inside the house, but no one spoke.

She dispatched patrol officers to the house near Bonanza Road and Rancho Drive. The officers were familiar with the residents because there was a history of domestic disturbances, the report says.

The two officers knocked on the door of the one-story, three-bedroom home and received no response, so they entered the house through an unlocked bathroom window.

They said they found Albert Greco stabbed to death and Charles Greco hiding in the living room. They wrote in their arrest report that Charles Greco told them: "That demon in the back room was trying to attack me. He's not my father."