LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — A woman is dead after being stabbed to death by her husband.
According to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, a man flagged down officers near Sahara Avenue and Rainbow Boulevard at 12:24 a.m. and said his sister called him saying his mom was being strangled.
Officers state when they responded to a home in the 9800 block of Shadow Grove Avenue, they found a woman in her 40s who had been stabbed several times. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
Investigators said they believe the incident happened whenever she got into a fight with her husband who took off in a maroon Nissan pickup truck.
Police said they located the truck at Rainbow and Badura and when officers tried to stop him, he took off.
Officers pursued him and were able to stop and block him on the freeway at Interstate 215 and Eastern Avenue. Police said the man then barricaded himself inside the vehicle and SWAT responded to the scene.
The LVMPD Homicide Section responded and during the investigation, detectives were able to identify the suspect as the victim’s husband, 62-year-old Alexander Fitzgerald.
The man was taken into custody around 5:35 a.m. and was then taken to Sunrise Hospital to be treated for self-inflicted injuries.
Fitzgerald has been booked in absentia into the Clark County Detention Center for Open Murder.
The identification of the victim, as well as the cause and manner of death, will be released by the Clark County Coroner’s Office.
