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Monday, July 4, 2011 | 8:02 p.m.
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A man was stabbed to death early Monday while walking with friends on the Las Vegas Strip, Metro Police said.
Officers responded at 1:52 a.m. to the 3700 block of South Las Vegas Boulevard on a report that a man had been stabbed at the location. Officers arrived to find a Hispanic man suffering from multiple stab wounds.
The victim was taken to University Medical Center's trauma unit, where he was pronounced dead.
Detectives determined the man and his friends were walking southbound on Las Vegas Boulevard when they were confronted by a group of men, then members of the two groups became involved in an altercation, Metro homicide Lt. Lew Roberts said.
During the fight, one person pulled a knife and stabbed the victim several times, police said.
The suspects fled the scene southbound, but where apprehended across the street. They were taken to police headquarters for questioning and were being interviewed Monday evening.
The name of the victim will be released by the Clark County Coroner's Office.
Anyone with information is being asked to contact Crime Stoppers at 385-5555 or Metro's homicide section at 828-3521.
The incident follows a deadly June 25 stabbing that occurred after a fight over a remark about a girl.
Two groups quarreled, separated and then ran into each other again on the pedestrian walkway between the MGM Grand and New York-New York hotel-casinos. That’s when a second fight broke out, resulting in the fatal stabbing, police have said.
Andres Armando Elena, 21, of Las Vegas, died from a stab wound to the chest. Police arrested 25-year-old Victor Quijano in connection with Elena's death. Quijano, also of Las Vegas, was charged with murder with a deadly weapon, attempted murder with a deadly weapon and possession of a dangerous weapon.
OK Metro... do what you gotta do to sit on this crap. I get that it was 2 a.m. and the last one was at 4 a.m., but that is prime-time strip walkin' area. This can't continue.
I blame Shakespeare for this.
What's with the knives? No fists?
All the more reason to just walk away from ANY situation like this. It's one thing to defend yourself during a robbery or assault but these confrontations that seem to result from someone insulting someone else are a joke. Just walk away. Some warped sense of pride probably got this guy killed
Well this isn't a good trend.
By mentioning the prior event is someone dropping a hint that they might be connected?
Well, if the city allows that these kind of incidents begin to spread on the strip, we are going to have a lot of tourism flowing to the city (sarcasm).
After reading this, I don't feel like walking on the strip, or anywhere in the city after hours, and that's not good: Vegas life is nightlife.
Knives should be outlawed.
So some people came to Las Vegas and chatted with some other people on the Las Vegas Strip, is this right?
Later when they met again, one person was stabbed to death.
And am I reading this right?? just about a week ago. another group of people had met and a remark had been made about a female and then another person was stabbed to death. Correct??
Is this what the articles is saying about what happens on the Strip of Las Vegas regularly?
Seems like the Strip is THE place to start S&^% amongst the gangb******. NOT good for tourism or the general reputation of the Strip.
TomD1228
Fists? Are you kidding? At least there were no guns because these idiots can't shoot straight and innocent bystanders would be dead instead of one of their own.
Reminds me of "West Side Story". If you want to fight - take it "under the highway".
When you're a jet, you're a Jet all the way
I have no way of knowing if the two stabbings are at all technically connected (in fact I'd venture to guess not), however, such crimes two weeks apart in the same general area on the strip certainly magnify the issue. Word travels fast and that's a "word" we don't need out there.
Dear Metro,
Please crack down on people who have no business being on the strip....you know who they are....the ones who are looking for nothing but trouble. You have my full permission to knock some heads!
I see Metro is adept at shooting Las Vegas citizens, but apparently unable to harm or capture knife-wielding tourists. Way to go, Dizzy! Now you have yet another excuse to go on the local talk show and talk about how great your officers are, how dangerous the job is, blah blah blah. Where is the Federalist protection from idiotic mass rule like we have here in Nevada when you need it? Obviously the masses in Clark County are unable to recognize the worst Sheriff in the country.
The hispanic gangs are turning this town into little Mexico..... becoming an every day occurrence. When will the government wake up and start deporting all illegal aliens by the bus, plane and ship load back their country of origin?
lol @ airweare
Vegasfireguy..You are right. More than once I feel like I have been watched or followed or I have observed other guests in the same situation..and I don't mean being watched by security...
Is this getting to be the norm on the strip? I am now rethinking my visit in Sept.
LVRJ had the groups involved in this incident as Hispanic also. I just don't understand why certain groups have to get into some sort of confrontation that always seems to end up with a death. There is no shame in just ignoring and walking away from violence or calling the police. Believe me your family would be much happier.
Don't know if this is gang related but some of these guys walking in groups seem to have a real chip on their shoulder. Walking around angry, mad, confrontational, violent.
Now this killer will sit in jail like the guy last week and just rot. Told when to eat, sleep, etc.
They just never learn. Enjoy the summer and the next couple decades in a 6 x 9 cell. Just stupid, stupid people.
Mr. Melcher:
If you think the "war on drugs" has been nothing more than a multi-trillion dollar abyssmal failure (and it clearly has and will continue to be) wait until you hear the hue and cry from "small-government-fiscal-conservatives" when they see the size and the cost of the government necessary to round up some 14 million (or is it 40 million? Sort of depends on the source)illegals and pay to ship them back to their coutries of origin.
People who rankle at the possibility of their tax dollars being used to provide life-saving medical care to an uninsured, dying baby are going to be screaming until their heads explode when they see the price tag for mass repatriation.
It is disingenuous (the polite word for what it REALLY is) at best to demand a service from the government, then whine incessantly about the cost, but you can bet your last dollar that is exactly what will happen if the government actually takes up your challenge.
Spent a lot of time on the Strip last week with friends. Just my opinion but you really need to pay attention to what is going on around you when you are out there walking. This area has changed dramatically over just the past 5 years. I don't feel anywhere near as safe as I used to when on the Strip. There are many people in town looking for perhaps an easy dollar from some unspecting tourists. Again this is just my opinion.
You are right, Old Judge. I make many solo trips to LV and things have changed. I still notice a police presence, but there is more of the bad element skulking around.
Why? Is it the economy? Are they just growing bolder and more desperate?
Yet I still see tourists jogging and or power walking on the strip with iPod earphones plugged in...oblivious to everything around them.
Other tourists with head buried in phone texting away not even aware of where they are walking.
They caught this guy who claims he was drunk and acting in self defense. Yeah right. Another dumb ass carrying a knife up to no good. I love how these idiots claim self defense yet the first thing they do is discard the knife and take off running. If it was truly self defense in a mugging or assault the honest thing to do is wait for the police and explain what happened. These animals run for the hills. There is guilt associated with fleeing.
People used to come to this country and want to assimilate. They wanted to be Americans. Not any more. Now emigrants come here and keep the same traditions and cultures that they had in the old country. And there is nothing wrong with that as long as they remember that they are in the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Act accordingly. Set an example for your people and the country you came from. (That goes for Americans too.)
Being in a gang is a way of life for some people. It was all they were exposed to growing up so they don't know any other life and have not had the opportunity to experience much else. This is probably mostly due to ill parenting.
It's too late to keep the bad ones out. It's cost prohibitive and no one can guarantee results. Eventually the uneducated and misguided will take over this country and the world. But that doesn't mean we should stand by and let them.
New parents can lead us out of this. They could turn this country around in two generations if they started paying more attention to educating their own children instead of letting them being educated by the entertainment industry and the streets. My fear is that those in a position to change things never even read the newspaper, let alone any meaningful books.