Man extradited from Mississippi in connection with October 2013 double homicide
A man has been extradited from Mississippi in connection with an October 2013 double homicide in the east valley, the Metropolitan Police Department said Monday.
Christopher Green, 32, was extradited Friday from Mississippi’s Yazoo County Regional Correctional Facility, where he’d been serving an eight-year sentence for aggravated assault since 2014, Mississippi prison records show.
He was booked Friday into the Clark County Detention Center because the charges he now faces — two counts of murder and one count of misdemeanor battery — supersede the sentence he was serving.
The double homicide he was arrested in connection with happened Oct. 20, 2013, at Pacific Harbors Sunrise apartments, near Sahara Avenue and Nellis Boulevard. After a loud argument between two small groups of men in the middle of the 5150 E. Sahara Ave. complex, one man fired eight or nine shots before midnight, killing two: Michael Dunbar, 28, and Teraye Lyles, 29, according to a police report.
Police did not identify a motive at the time.
When officers responded about 11:45 p.m., they found Dunbar’s body — shot multiple times — in a grassy area between two apartment buildings. About six hours later, someone who lived at the complex flagged down officers still on the scene and pointed out Lyles’ body — also shot multiple times — under an apartment stairwell, according to the report.
A warrant for Green was issued in July 2014, according to court records. He is being held without bail and is expected in court Thursday.
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