Police seek man after fatal vacuum cleaner beating

Associated Press

Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013 | 12:06 p.m.

North Las Vegas officials say they're looking for a man accused of beating his wife with a vacuum cleaner in an attack that later proved fatal.Police say they obtained an arrest warrant earlier this month for 37-year-old Anthony Tyron Mayo. Authorities say he has family in Southern California and may be in the San Diego, Los Angeles or Palmdale areas.North Las Vegas police say they responded Aug. 10, 2012, to a home on Matinee Avenue. They say 40-year-old Beverly McFarlane told them her husband had strangled her before hitting her on the head with a vacuum cleaner two days earlier.McFarlane ...

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By Markey

Feb. 21, 2013

4:03 p.m.

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When i first saw this story, i thought Florida, but, North Las Vegas is close enough..

Sigh
By airweare (Joe Lamy)

Feb. 21, 2013

7:38 p.m.

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The reason that the great amerikan novel will NOT be based in Las Vegas is that it truly is the hub of despair, the magnet of the new beat generation - the sweltering purgatory where ya can get by living low and on the lam.

And if ever there were a birthplace of the great American novel, Las Vegas has its soul. Only here could a nothing nobody loser find power, morph personalities and develop weasel traits to shame a furrier's concubine. Lust and passion, dignity and despair, yesterday and tomorrow are splattered around the strip, the bario.

But just when it was done and the writer on the way to the bank with the most powerful words in the English language: Pay To The Order Of..., dang, some punk liked his watch and offed the skinny little writer dude and nabbed that sucker's Timex!
By askmrmark (Mark Anthony)

Feb. 21, 2013

8:06 p.m.

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Time to ban vacuum cleaners... The cause of violent crime !!
By jimmyk

Feb. 21, 2013

8:20 p.m.

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askmrmark I totally agree.

WE NEED TO BAN VACUUM CLEANERS! How did the American government let this happen. Let's fund the removal of vacuum cleaners around the world. I'm going to write Harry and tell him to pass 100 billion for vacuum cleaner drones. We will FREE the world from these criminal vacuum cleaners.

I never did like those Dyson vacuum commercials.
By Roslenda (Roberta Anderson)

Feb. 22, 2013

12:14 p.m.

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You do a crime, even a rather small crime like robbery, and the victim dies--some people go into cardiac arrest and die. You get charged and convicted of murder. That's the way it works.