A woman was arrested early Thursday morning after Las Vegas Metropolitan Police said she stabbed her husband to death inside an apartment near Charleston and Rainbow boulevards.
Dispatch received a report of a stabbing in the 6700 block of Del Rey Avenue at 5:34 a.m. Arriving officers found a man and a woman inside the residence suffering from apparent stab wounds.
The man was pronounced dead at the scene. The woman, identified as 53-year-old Naima Ahmadi, was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Police determined through their investigation that Ahmadi fatally stabbed her husband before stabbing herself. She was booked into the Clark County Detention Center on a charge of open murder with a deadly weapon.
The Clark County Coroner's office will release the victim's identification along with the official cause and manner of death.
Sources: Las Vegas Review-Journal
Original reporting: 8 News Now →
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