LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The man accused of stabbing another man in a seemingly random attack at at a Las Vegas convenience store went back to the crime scene three days later, police documents said.
On Saturday, August 3 at around 4:30 p.m., officers with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department were called to a convenience store in the 5000 block of East Tropicana Avenue near South Nellis Boulevard for reports of a stabbing.
The victim left the scene before officers arrived, but officers found him sitting on a power box down the street. The victim was bleeding from his head and neck, according to an arrest report.
Medical staff at a hospital determined the victim sustained non-life threatening injuries consisting of three stab wounds and two lacerations in his shoulder, neck and head, documents said.
The victim told police he was walking out of the convenience store when a man walked up behind him and started stabbing him. The victim fell to the ground where the man continued to stab him before he ran away, the report stated.
The victim told police he believed the attack was random and said he did not recognize the man who stabbed him, according to the report.
Three days after the stabbing, a man matching the suspect from the convenience store’s surveillance video crossed under crime scene tape at the business.
An officer there told the man the store was closed because it was a crime scene. The man ignored the officer and told him he was going to make a purchase, the report stated.
Because the man, later identified as Florencio Grolon, 36, matched the description of the stabbing suspect, police detained him. While searching his person, police found “a nail filer with a pointy tip” in his pocket, according to the report.
Grolon told an officer that he did not have a job and he “had done some bad things recently,” the report stated. Once police took Grolon to a police station, he refused to answer any questions.
Police booked Grolon in the Clark County Detention Center for a charge of attempted murder with the use of a deadly weapon. Court records indicate he also faces an additional charge of attempted murder with the use of a deadly weapon and robbery with the use of a deadly weapon.
Grolon is held without bail. His next court appearance is scheduled for Monday, Aug. 12.
