Man arrested in deadly stabbing in southeast Las Vegas
A man was jailed after a fatal stabbing over a cellphone in the southeast valley early Tuesday.
Brandon Scott Coristine, 30, was booked into the Clark County Detention Center on a charge of first-degree murder with a deadly weapon, jail records show.
Las Vegas police said the victim, a woman in her 40s, was stabbed about midnight in front of her home on the 5900 block of Whitney Avenue, near Boulder Highway and East Tropicana Avenue.
The woman and her assailant knew each other, but their fight was not a domestic dispute, Metropolitan Police Department Lt. Dan McGrath said. The man and woman had been fighting over a cellphone before the man stabbed her in the neck with a knife. She died at Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center about 12:40 a.m.
After stabbing the woman, the man returned to a five-wheel trailer in the 5960 block of Dodd Street, where he lives with his mother, McGrath said.
Police went to the trailer, McGrath said, and after some initial resistance, “he basically came out and surrendered to patrol officers.”
The argument started near the trailer before culminating in the stabbing on Whitney Avenue.
Neighbor Cynthia Manzella said a loud argument awakened her, and she heard about the homicide from police at the scene.
She did not identify the victim, but she said the woman had a baby a month ago.
“She was a good mom,” Manzella said.
The victim will be identified by the Clark County coroner’s office after her family has been notified.
This is the 25th homicide in Clark County and the 21st investigated by Metro this year.
Coristine has a criminal record in Spokane, Washington, that requires him to register as a sex offender in Nevada. He pleaded guilty to an assault charge in 2013 in connection with the rape of a woman who passed out drunk after a house party in 2009, Washington court records show.
Review-Journal writer Wesley Juhl contributed to this report. Contact Mike Shoro at mshoro@reviewjournal.com. Follow @mike_shoro on Twitter.