Javier Righetti was convicted of first-degree murder Thursday in the 2011 stabbing death of a 15-year-old Las Vegas girl, and prosecutors plan to seek capital punishment.
Stabbings
A friend testified Friday that Javier Righetti called him repeatedly after killing 15-year-old Alyssa Otremba, then asked the friend to take him back to the girl’s body.
A woman arrived at a Green Valley Grocery with a cut on her arm and told authorities she had been stabbed Wednesday morning, Las Vegas police said.
The man found dead Monday in a central valley apartment has been identified as Arturo Carrillo, 43, of Las Vegas.
A man who walked into a northwest valley gas station with stab wounds Monday night was suspected of burglarizing a home earlier in the evening, Las Vegas police said.
Las Vegas police said a woman was stabbed, and her husband was found dead Monday inside a central valley apartment.
One person was injured after a robbery and stabbing on a bus in the southwest valley, police said.
The suspect in a Las Vegas woman’s 1991 death is scheduled to appear in court for a preliminary hearing on March 20.
A man was found stabbed on a downtown Las Vegas sidewalk Monday night, police said. Metropolitan Police Department officers were called just after 6:45 p.m. to Fremont and North Sixth streets, near the Commonwealth Bar for reports of a man down.
A man serving a life sentence for murder in Arkansas was booked Monday into the Clark County Detention Center on an additional murder charge in a case from 1991.
A family argument ended with one person stabbed and another bitten in the northwest valley Friday morning.
A judge on Thursday afternoon found Javier Righetti, charged with killing a 15-year-old girl, mentally capable of facing the death penalty.
Lawyers for Javier Righetti say he suffers from an intellectual disability and should not face the death penalty for the rape and killing of a 15-year-old Arbor View High School freshman.
A man suspected of burglary and attempted murder in North Las Vegas may have been driven by a love triangle, according to arrest documents.
The Nevada Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a lower court decision to reject the guilty plea of Javier Righetti in the murder of a 15-year-old Arbor View High School freshman.