A Bally’s security officer, right, stands by as Las Vegas Metro Police officers investigate a fatal stabbing at the casino Friday morning.
Published Friday, Sept. 5, 2008 | 8:49 a.m.
Updated Friday, Sept. 5, 2008 | 6:13 p.m.
Latrovia Reed
Metro Police have arrested 23-year-old Latrovia Reed of Milwaukee as a suspect in a fatal stabbing this morning at Bally's Hotel and Casino.
Reed is being held at the Clark County Detention Center without bail on a charge of murder with a deadly weapon and soliciting prostitution, police said.
Reed and two other women were arguing near the registration desk at Bally's at about 6 a.m., police said. When officers arrived at the Las Vegas Strip resort, they discovered a 22-year-old woman had been stabbed in the neck. Hotel staff were tending to her.
She was taken to Sunrise Hospital, where she died of her injuries, police said.
The Clark County coroner's office hasn't released the name of the victim or the cause of death.
The suspect had fled the resort, but Metro detectives later found and arrested her.
Jeffrey Jordan, a witness to the stabbing, said in an e-mail message that security guards arrived after the stabbing incident was over. He wrote that the incident "happened quick and there was blood all over."
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 385-5555 or Metro's homicide section at 828-3521.
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