Man charged in wife’s death in southwest valley
Police say a man killed his wife after hitting her in the southwest Las Vegas Valley.
A call was made just before 12:25 a.m. Monday morning to a residence on the 9800 block of Shadow Grove Avenue, according to a Metropolitan Police Department release.
Arriving officers located an unresponsive woman inside the home. Medical personnel responded and pronounced the victim deceased at the scene. The suspect had fled the scene prior to the officers’ arrival, the release said.
Alexander Marshall, 62, had barricaded himself near Interstate 215 and Pecos Road and was later detained. He was booked in absentia into the Clark County Detention Center on a charge of open murder.
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