LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said a fight between a nephew, 20s, and uncle, 50s, left one dead at a mobile home in the east valley.
Police said they responded to the 4400 block of Vegas Valley Drive, between Lamb Boulevard and Mountain Vista Street, in response to a battery. When officers arrived, they were contacted by a woman who said a nephew and uncle in her family got into an altercation before she got home.
When police entered her residence, police said there was blood on the floor and walls. Police soon got in contact with the son, identified as 27-year-old Jorge Portell. In their conversation with him, Portell said the uncle was dead in the back bedroom of the home.
An investigation by LVMPD revealed that Portell "battered the victim "with a blunt force instrument earlier in the day.
Medical arrived and declared the uncle deceased at the scene.
LVMPD says Portell is in custody and is cooperative with the investigation. He was arrested and booked into the Clark County Detention Center for open murder with a deadly weapon and kidnapping in the 1st degree.
Police want to let other residents in the mobile home park know that the incident was localized and not random and that there are no other issues in the mobile home park.
KTNV will provide more details as they become available.
