Former employee of domestic violence agency commits suicide

Monday, Feb. 25, 2013 | 11:55 a.m.

A former employee at a North Las Vegas agency that assists victims of domestic violence shot and killed himself after sexual coercion charges landed him in jail last July, officials said.

Benedetto Vitale, 60, of North Las Vegas was found in his car Thursday along Interstate 15, dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, the Clark County Coroner’s Office reported.

Vitale was arrested in late July on counts of open and gross lewdness, forgery and sexually motivated coercion. He was fired from his job as a director at SafeNest shortly after his arrest.

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By dodgerchuck

Feb. 26, 2013

7:48 a.m.

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this falls under the old rules for us-rules for them.rest in piss pervert.the victim should sue his estate and the organization for letting this dracula look after the blood bank.the fishermen go where the fish are.