Las Vegas police say homicide suspect may have posed as buyer of goods sold online

Javon Robinson (Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department)

Las Vegas police believe a man arrested Wednesday in connection with the January shooting death of Kevin Camacho may have posed as a buyer for goods he sold online.

Javon Robinson, 24, was booked into the Clark County Detention Center to face charges of first degree murder and robbery with a deadly weapon.

According to Robinson’s arrest report, Camacho’s parents told police that he often bought items in bulk and sold them online on websites such as Offer Up and Craigslist. Police believe he went to the apartment complex to meet with a buyer.

“We suggest that if people are going to do an exchange, they do it in public,” Metro Officer Michael Rodriguez said, noting some people use such sites to find “easy victims.”

On Jan. 27, officers were initially called to the Adobe Villas apartment complex at 3550 E. Lake Mead Blvd., where they found Camacho dead. The Clark County coroner’s office said the 21-year-old North Las Vegas resident died from a gunshot wound to the chest. Police didn’t find Camacho’s keys or wallet on his body, but did find a phone.

When detectives searched the phone, they found texts between Camacho and someone with a number not saved in his phone.

Witnesses at the apartment complex told police they saw a man wearing a gray hoodie before and after the shooting, and described him as standing between 5-foot-10 and 6 feet tall, and weighing about 160 pounds.

Detectives traced the phone number and found the serial number for a Samsung Galaxy phone associated with it. Detectives located Robinson’s address with the help of a Domino’s Pizza that had the phone number from previous orders.

After ruling out two other people living at the address because they did not match the suspect’s description, detectives searched Robinson’s home and seized a Samsung Galaxy phone, a gray hoodie, handguns or ammunition and a DNA sample from Robinson. He was arrested two days later.

Rodriguez recommends that buyers and sellers meet in public areas or even Metro substation parking lots.

“Unfortunately when you purchase items from someone you don’t know, there’s risk involved,” he said. “We just want people to think, and be safe.”

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