LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — A 21-year-old man is accused of fatally stabbing his father at a Las Vegas apartment on Tuesday morning.
Officials with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said officers responded to the Desert Garden Condominiums, near Bonanza Road and M.L.K. Boulevard, at 4:09 a.m. for a welfare check.
Upon arriving at the apartment, police located a 54-year-old Hispanic male suffering from multiple stab wounds. Medical personnel responded and pronounced the man deceased on the scene.
A preliminary investigation by the LVMPD Homicide Section indicated the victim and his son, since identified as 21-year-old Jacob Racilis, were involved in a dispute inside the apartment. During the dispute, police say Racilis stabbed the victim, then checked himself in to Sunrise Hospital to be treated for multiple lacerations to his hand.
Racilis reported the incident to hospital staff and was subsequently arrested for open murder, police said.
Police say that the victim and Racilis had recently rekindled their relationship and were living together briefly.
This investigation is ongoing.
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