Man Murdered Naked Woman at MGM Grand Using Gun With Silencer, Las Vegas Cops Reveal
The man accused of fatally shooting an unclothed adult female inwards a guest way at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino has been arrested. He will come along in homage on Tuesday.
Dandre Owens, 29, allegedly shaft the dupe inward the support of the caput at the Las Vegas Strip attribute inward late January, using a firearm weaponed with a silencer.
Authorities found the adult female on a bed, according to Las Vegas TV station KLAS. The sheets were covered inwards blood. She was wearing only a pair off of socks natural covering her feet.
Police later identified the murdered adult female as Brittani Bailey, 29.
The unrelenting incident came to light after an unnamed man called the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) at 2 a.m. on January 29 and asked them to do a welfare check.
He had talked to Pearl Bailey at 10 p.m. on January 28. But when he repeatedly called her back, thither was no answer. He also told police force which room she was staying at inwards the MGM Grand.
LVMPD officers alerted cassino security department guards. They went to the elbow room and continually knocked on the door and called out. There was no more response. Music was playing inward the room.
Security guards and so opened the door. Bailey’s still personify was on the bed. She was declared dead a shortsighted clip later. Her death later was ruled to be a homicide next an autopsy.
Mystery Person Rented Room
As the pillowcase was investigated, police set an terra incognita individual had registered at the hotel and was given a tonality card for the way on Jan 28. James Cleveland Owens had placed an online advertizing for someone to book a hotel room and he hired the mystery individual for an unrevealed amount of money.
That individual gave Owens the paint card at about 4 p.m. on January 28.
About Little Phoebe hours later, Pearl Bailey used a rideshare railway car to have to the MGM Grand. She met Owens past the elevators. The duo went upwardly to the hotel room.
Owens left hand the hotel later. He and then got into a rideshare railcar himself.
LVMPD officers were able to later name Jesse Owens as the suspect in the murder. They located him on Sun inward a South Pecos River Road parking lot in Las Vegas. He was taken into custody.
When searching him, officers found a silencer, firearm, and a magazine. He allegedly told constabulary his identify was “John Doe.” He had several postiche IDs, too, police said.
Later, he told law his correct name.
Owens claimed he found the gun and silencer in the desert. But when police searched Owens’ house, they placed quatern other silencers and ammo, KLAS reported.
Victim’s I.D. Found on Owens
He also denied cleanup Bailey. But when officers searched his wallet, they found Bailey’s Social Security Card, police force said.
Owens has been supercharged with unfastened polish off with a lethal weapon, carrying a concealed weapon system without a permit, possession of a silencer/suppressor, obtaining and using personal identification of another to avoid/delay prosecution, theft, forgery, and being a prohibited soul inward ownership of a firearm.
No motive has been released inward the case.
Owens remains inward custody at the Kenneth Bancroft Clark County Detention Center. No bail was set.