LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Two men are dead, and another is facing charges after a shooting in an east Las Vegas parking lot over the weekend.
On Sunday, April 13, at around 1:30 a.m., officers with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department responded to the 3900 block of East Owens Avenue near Pecos Road after a report of a shooting in the parking lot of a business.
Arriving officers found two men suffering from gunshot wounds. Medical personnel pronounced both men dead at the scene.
Detectives learned the victims were leaving a party at a banquet hall when a verbal fight occurred, and a man, later identified as Julio Bautista-Martinez, 24, shot both men.
Bautista-Martinez left the scene before police arrived, but officers later arrested him and booked him into the Clark County Detention Center for two counts of open murder.
He was held without bail, and his next court appearance was scheduled for April 16.
The identification of the decedents, as well as the cause and manner of death, can be
obtained through the Clark County Coroner’s Office.
Anyone with any information about this incident is urged to contact the LVMPD Homicide
Section by phone at 702-828-3521, or by email at homicide@lvmpd.com. To remain
anonymous, contact Crime Stoppers by phone at 702-385-5555, or on the Crime Stoppers website.
