Man arrested in fatal stabbing in downtown Las Vegas

A witness, surveillance video and an anonymous tipster helped detectives place a antheral accused of fatally stabbing a 45-year-old past period successful downtown Las Vegas, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.

Cashmen Robinson, 39, was booked Tuesday into the Clark County Detention Center connected 1 number of murder.

Robinson’s Las Vegas Justice Court docket, which describes him arsenic “indigent,” notes that helium was being held without bail pursuing a proceeding Wednesday. Records bash not database an lawyer for him.

Police responded astir 4:45 a.m. Dec. 14 to a motel astatine 1210 Las Vegas Blvd. South, wherever Davelle Johnson walked into the lobby and collapsed, according to Robinson’s apprehension warrant.

Johnson died astatine the country from a stab coiled to the head, the Clark County coroner’s bureau said.

Detectives interviewed a pistillate who saw the stabbing, and she said that she saw Robinson punch Johnson and did not initially cognize she had witnessed a stabbing, constabulary said.

The pistillate and Robinson had breached up a relationship, and minutes earlier the stabbing, helium had “accosted” her and her young girl erstwhile she stepped retired of a cab, constabulary said.

It was not wide what happened next, but Robinson past “cornered” the unfortunate successful the country and stabbed him aft a “brief conversation,” constabulary said.

The pistillate told constabulary that Robinson past threatened to termination her if “she told the constabulary thing astir the incident,” constabulary said.

Footage of Robinson’s minutes-long quarrel with the pistillate and the stabbing helped corroborate her testimony, constabulary said.

Two days aft the killing, an anonymous tipster led constabulary to a Facebook relationship nether Robinson’s sanction that helped them lucifer the suspect’s description, including a chiseled “cross” tattoo connected his face, according to the warrant.

The pistillate told radical that Robinson had contacted her aft the slaying and told her that helium “did not mean to kill” the victim, constabulary said.

Details of his apprehension were not provided.

A bail proceeding for Robinson is acceptable for Thursday morning.

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