LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – A North Las Vegas man was arrested after police said he stabbed a man with a knife at a bus station in downtown Las Vegas.
Jimmie Lee Greer, 61, faces a battery charge following the Aug. 5 incident near 3rd Street and Bonneville Avenue, according to a police arrest report obtained by 8 News Now.
Officers arrived at the scene on Aug. 5 shortly after 7 p.m. after reports that a man had been stabbed by another man at the Bonneville Transit Center.
Security personnel described the suspect to police and stated that he had been walking a dog at the time, according to the report.
Police eventually found the man who had been stabbed sitting on a bench at the bus station. The man was given medical assistance for a “single penetrating” chest wound. Officers noticed the man starting to lose consciousness and stopped the police interview. The man was then taken to a nearby hospital.
According to the report, officers then found Greer walking nearby and took him into custody. Greer told officers he was at the bus station asking employees to break a large dollar bill amount to pay his fare for a bus ticket. He then told police that someone approached him offering an extra ticket for $2, which Greer said he agreed to pay. However, Greer then told police the person offering him the ticket then asked for more money, to which Greer told him he did not have enough money and the person then asked to have his dog instead, according to the report.
When Greer refused to give up his dog he told police the person offering the ticket got upset and abruptly kicked Greer in the chest, according to the report. After officers read him his Miranda Rights Greer continued to tell officers that after he was kicked by the person he “defended himself” but would not comment further on the details of how he defended himself, according to the report.
Police said evidence at the scene included a 9-inch fixed blade knife, surveillance video that appeared to show the fight between the two men escalate into a stabbing, and a bloody white t-shirt worn by the man who had been stabbed, all of which were recovered from the scene.
The man stabbed had non-life-threatening injuries but was in surgery for an hour to treat those injuries, police stated in the report.
Greer is scheduled to appear in court on Aug. 12.
