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Police release mug shot for suspect in stabbing

Posted at 5:43 PM, Dec 30, 2015
and last updated 2015-12-30 20:43:15-05
UPDATE: Gianni Raneri, 29, of Las Vegas has been arrested for the stabbing on Dec. 30. He has been booked into the Clark County Detention Center.
 
This is the 136th homicide investigated by Las Vegas police in 2015. The Clark County coroner will release name and age of deceased. 
 

This is part of the interview I did with the man who tried to save the stabbing victim. You can hear more of it tonight at 5:00 p.m.

Posted by Parker Collins on Wednesday, December 30, 2015

EARLIER STORY

A person is dead after being stabbed near Swenson Street and Twain Avenue.

It reportedly happened at the Shelter Island Apartments at around 1 a.m. A man in the area who says he knows the victim told Action News that two men got into a fight over a woman.

Police have arrested a suspect. They say that two men got into a fight earlier in the evening and then ran into each other again shortly before 1 a.m. They confirmed that the fight between the two men was over the woman.

A security guard is being credited with detaining the suspect after the stabbing. The exact relationships between the trio were not revealed.

The Clark County coroner will identify the deceased after relatives have been notified.

This is a developing story. Action News will update this story as soon as more information becomes available.